Senior Storage & Data Engineer80%-100%, Lugano, fixed-term

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) develops and operates a high-performance computing and data research infrastructure that supports world-class science in Switzerland. Its user laboratory is available to domestic and international researchers in academia, industry, and the business sector. The centre is operated by ETH Zurich and has offices at its data centre in Lugano and in Zurich.

For this position the work location is either Lugano or Zürich. The contract is for two years.

Project background

Storing petabytes is the easy part. The hard part is everything between the moment data lands on disk and the moment a researcher — or a training job — can actually trust it, find it, and use it.

Our parallel filesystems and object stores already move data fast. What they don't do on their own is tell a scientist where a dataset came from, which transformations produced it, whether it's the version that backed last quarter's publish...