Software Engineer - Network Automation (Go/Python)

About the role

Exoscale, a Swiss/European cloud service provider, is hiring a full-time software engineer for its network team, which builds and runs the edge, datacenter and out-of-band networks across its European zones. The role owns the orchestration that takes a network change from a merged pull request to running on production devices, turning a manual process into an automated, safe workflow.

Key responsibilities

• Design and build the orchestration of network changes, coordinating multi-step operations with pre-change validation, staged rollout, post-change verification and automatic rollback.
• Write the services and tooling in Go and Python, including tests, CI and observability.
• Build a test environment (virtual labs, config and state checks) to catch bad changes before they reach a device.
• Extend the source-of-truth and config-generation tooling (NetBox, Peering Manager, Ansible/Jinja2).
• Make the network's state visible by detecting drift between intended and running configuration.
• Take part in code and infrastructure change reviews and join the on-call rotation after training.

Required profile

• Solid professional experience designing, writing and maintaining production software in Go, with fluency in Python.
• Experience building CI/CD or deployment systems where a failed rollout has real consequences.
• Habit of testing what you ship and automating what you do twice.
• Working understanding of networking fundamentals (IP, routing, VLANs, BGP); no network engineer background needed.
• Strong written and spoken English and comfort in a distributed team.
• A background in network automation, SRE or platform engineering is a plus.

Required skills

• Production software in Go and Python
• CI/CD or deployment systems
• Networking basics (IP, routing, VLANs, BGP)
• Nice to have: Arista EOS, Junos, SONiC, NETCONF, gNMI, eAPI; Ansible, NetBox; containerlab, Batfish, pyATS; Linux networking and Kubernetes

What we offer

• Flexible hours and the ability to work remotely
• High degree of autonomy and creative freedom
• Modern offices with good public transport access
• Ongoing learning, training and team events