Nexthink

Technology

StaffSoftwareEngineer

$175–250k ~AI est. Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Staff Software Engineer at Nexthink. Skills: AI-native platform, Distributed systems, Gen AI, Automation. Reimagine automation for AI era. Evolve Flow platform”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Diagnose issues; Fix issues; Proactive optimization

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

10+ years backend engineering experience, 3+ years Staff or Principal-level roles, Proven success designing and scaling backend systems, Expert in Java (17+), Python, or Node.js, Background in distributed systems, Background in concurrency, Background in high availability, Hands-on expertise in cloud-native architectures, Hands-on expertise in AWS or equivalent, Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes/ECS, Hands-on expertise in containerized deployments, Hands-on expertise in large-scale database systems, Deep understanding of API design, Deep understanding of streaming data, Deep understanding of event-driven systems, Exceptional communication skills, Mentorship and team elevation track record, Engineering excellence track record

Nice to Have

Advanced AI/ML experience, Model fine-tuning experience, Model training experience, B2B enterprise product experience

What You'll Do.

Reimagine automation for AI era

Dynamically generate workflows

Build secure environments

Build reliable environments

Build sandboxed environments

Design large-scale systems

Ship large-scale systems

Design distributed systems

Ship distributed systems

Design real-time systems

Ship real-time systems

Serve enterprise customers

Work with Product Management

Measure Gen AI effectiveness

Iterate on Gen AI effectiveness

Drive technical direction

Influence architectural decisions

Raise engineering standards

Navigate early-stage exploration

Align engineering strategy

Champion engineering excellence

Support other engineers

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Product Management; UX; Infrastructure teams; Security teams; Cost Governance teams; AI/ML teams; Leadership

Communication Scope

Influence cross-functional teams; Influence leadership

Full Job Description

Nexthink is the leader in digital employee experience management software. The company provides IT leaders with unprecedented insight allowing them to see, diagnose and fix issues at scale impacting employees anywhere, with any application or network, before employees notice the issue. As the first solution to allow IT to progress from reactive problem solving to proactive optimization, Nexthink enables its more than 1,300 customers to provide better digital experiences to more than 18 million employees. Dual headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, Nexthink has 9 offices worldwide. #LI-Hybrid Imagine building the automation platform that powers the future of IT — not just for human operators, but for AI agents themselves. At Nexthink, we're evolving Flow , our enterprise automation product, into something genuinely new: an AI-native platform where intelligent agents dynamically create and orchestrate the executions for enterprise scale and reliability. This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape a product that doesn’t fully exist yet. You’ll be joining a small, high-impact team at the very beginning of this journey — working closely with leadership to explore, build, and define what next-generation IT automation looks like. If you thrive in ambiguity, love owning things end-to-end, and want your work to matter at scale, this role was built for you. We're hiring Staff Software Engineer to join this initiative. Responsibilities: * Reimagining automation for the AI era — evolving Flow from a human-operated platform into one that AI agents can leverage to dynamically generate and execute workflows in secure, reliable, sandboxed environments. * Building at scale — designing and shipping large-scale, distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems that serve enterprise customers with hundreds of thousands of endpoints. * Shaping the product — working closely with Product Management and UX to define not just how to build things, but what is worth

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