About kaiko 

Delivering high quality cancer care is complex; specialists form a view of each patient's condition by reasoning across different data - CT scans, genomics context, treatment history and clinical notes. 

Current AI are powerful within domains but fall short when it comes to reasoning across data or domain areas. kaiko.w, our AI assistant for oncology, aims to equip every clinician with a full understanding of their patients, helping them to reason across data as they assess each case. 

We’re building this in close collaboration with the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) and a growing network of hospitals and research centers. We’ve raised significant long-term funding and have nearly doubled our team over the past year. We’re now 80+ people representing 25 nationalities, based across our offices in Zurich and Amsterdam 

About the role 

As we advance our mission to revolutionize cancer treatment, the integration of diverse data sources, like doctor's notes and genomics data, into cohesive clinical workflows becomes increasingly complex. Maintaining a robust CI/CD infrastructure is essential for delivering innovative solutions swiftly and ensuring doctors make timely decisions. 

As a CI/CD Engineer in our DevEx team, you'll own the optimization of continuous integration and deployment processes. By refining our monorepo setup with Pants and enhancing Azure cloud infrastructure, you'll prevent bottlenecks that could disrupt code flow. Your work will keep our systems scalable and efficient as we grow. 

This role offers the chance to work with state-of-the-art infrastructure and tackle unique challenges related to releasing software as a medical device. You'll enjoy high autonomy over critical systems, collaborating with AI and oncology experts to directly impact patient care. This is an opportunity to shape platform engineering at Kaiko, addressing problems that require innovative solutions beyond off-the-shelf answers. 

You'll be based in either The Netherlands or Switzerland, spending at least 50% of your time at the office in a collaborative and innovative environment. 

Some areas of responsibility: 

• Enhance CI/CD workflows for streamlined infrastructure provisioning, code integration, and application deployment. 

• Design internal platforms enabling swift solution delivery with minimal friction. 

• Collaborate across teams to define best practices for CI/CD processes and promote their adoption. 

• Continuously improve system reliability and security by embedding scalable patterns into shared components. 

About you 

• You have proficiency in CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI for automating integration and deployment processes. 

• You possess strong experience with version control systems like Git, especially using GitHub for managing repositories within a monorepo structure. 

• You are skilled in scripting languages such as Python or Bash to support automation tasks. 

• You have experience managing cloud infrastructure, specifically on platforms like Azure, and understand containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. 

Nice to have 

• Experience with Pants or similar tools for monorepo management and orchestration tools like ArgoCD for infrastructure as code. 

• Knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef and monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack. 

• Understanding of security best practices within the DevOps lifecycle and ability to read and understand Python and JavaScript code for troubleshooting. 

We are excited to gather a broad range of perspectives in our team, as we believe it will help us build better products to support a broader set of people. If you’re excited about us but don’t fit every single qualification, we still encourage you to apply: we’ve had incredible team members join us who didn’t check every box! 

Why kaiko 

At kaiko, we believe the best ideas come from collaboration, ownership and ambition. We’ve built a team of international experts where your work has direct impact. Here’s what we value: 

• Ownership: You’ll have the autonomy to set your own goals, make critical decisions, and see the direct impact of your work. 

• Collaboration: You’ll have to approach disagreement with curiosity, build on common ground and create solutions together. 

• Ambition: You’ll be surrounded by people who set high standards for themselves and others, who see obstacles as opportunities, and who are relentless in their work to create better outcomes for patients. 

In addition, we offer: 

• An attractive and competitive salary, a good pension plan and 25 vacation days per year. 

• Great offsites and team events to strengthen the team and celebrate successes together. 

• A EUR 1000 learning and development budget to help you grow. 

• Autonomy to do your work the way that works best for you, whether you have a kid or prefer early mornings. 

• An annual commuting subsidy. 

Our interview process 

Our interview process is designed to assess mutual fit across skills, motivation, and values. It typically includes the following steps: 

• Screening call: A short conversation to align your motivation, career goals, and initial fit for the role. 

• Technical screening call: A short conversation for a first high-level assessment on the technical knowledge. 

• Technical Assignment: A take home assignment to demonstrate your hands-on knowledge. 

• Technical Deep Dive (preferably on-site): A deep dive into your problem-solving approach through a technical challenge, case study, or role-specific scenario. 

• Manager and Leadership Meeting: You’ll meet your potential manager and parts of the leadership team to discuss long-term alignment, cultural fit, and shared expectations for impact.