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title: 'Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Rivia'
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# Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Rivia

- **Company:** Rivia
- **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/rivia/am9icG9zdDovIlEPtanzFeYrUQtUf4ic

## Job description

## About Rivia

[Rivia](http://rivia.com/) is a technology company building a data engine that powers the future of clinical trial intelligence. Rivia was founded on the belief that new drugs can be brought to market more successfully with a fraction of today's capital. Biotechs are the source of most therapeutic innovation, yet clinical development is constantly constrained by fragmented data and outdated tooling.  Rivia unifies clinical trial data at scale through a core engine built as a reusable intelligence layer, comprising hundreds of configurations and trial-specific logic, independent of source structure. This vertical stack of data engine, workflows, and agents creates a distinct advantage in how trials are operated.

Over the past two years, European and US based biotechs running global clinical trials on Rivia have demonstrated measurable impact, from earlier understanding of therapeutic potential to significantly more efficient trial execution. In March 2026, Rivia raised its $15M Series A led by Earlybird Venture Capital.

Rivia’s ambition is to become the standard infrastructure for modern drug development, transforming how trials are executed end-to-end.

## About the Role

As Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Rivia, you own the AWS platform that everything runs on: EKS clusters, CI/CD, identity, costs, backups, internal tooling. You are our first dedicated infrastructure hire, embedded in the engineering team and working directly with the CTO. The scope is broad: AWS cost analysis one day, a flaky CI runner or a Keycloak upgrade the next. You fix problems, then automate the cause so they stop coming back. We expect you to work AI-native: leveraging AI agents to elevate our ability to improve security, reduce costs, and resolve performance issues. You work that way by default and keep expanding what the agents can do for us.

Working Model: This role is based on-site in our Zürich office

What excites you

- Full ownership: Owning the complete infrastructure of a company that moves clinical trial data for dozens of customers.
- Fixing things for good: Working through a real backlog and removing root causes so the same problems stop coming back.
- AI-native operations: Directing AI agents to do infrastructure work is already how you operate, and you want an environment that pushes it further.
- Improving a live system: Making an existing platform cheaper, faster, and more reliable step by step, rather than rebuilding it from scratch.
- Defining a function: Shaping what infrastructure at Rivia becomes as the company grows.

## Responsibilities

- Own our AWS platform end to end across staging and production: EKS, RDS, MemoryDB/Redis, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, networking.
- Understand and reduce our infrastructure costs, from the Spark data pipeline to backups, and keep unit economics improving as customer volume grows.
- Own CI/CD and developer productivity: faster pipelines, fewer flaky tests, better internal tooling.
- Keep our Kubernetes workloads stable and scalable, including the services behind our AI features.
- Run identity and secrets management: Keycloak, SSO, OIDC.
- Build AI-agent workflows for infrastructure work, such as recurring audits of AWS for cost, security, and performance findings.
- Support external penetration tests and provide infrastructure evidence for ISO 27001 and client audits.
- Document core systems and runbooks so the platform does not depend on any single person.

What Excites us

- Experience as the sole or first infrastructure owner at a startup.
- 5+ years of hands-on infrastructure or DevOps experience with deep AWS expertise, including cost optimization work.
- Production Kubernetes operations experience.
- A proper software engineer: you write production-quality code and can diagnose and fix problems inside application codebases when needed (JVM experience a plus).
- You have owned complex CI/CD end to end (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
- An AI-native way of working: you use agents (Claude Code or similar) for real infrastructure work and can show concrete examples.
- Comfortable being the only infrastructure specialist on the team: self-directed, you find and fix problems without being asked. Bonus
- Keycloak or similar identity provider operations (OIDC, SSO, secrets management).
- Spark or large-scale data pipeline infrastructure experience.
- Exposure to regulated environments (ISO 27001, audit support).
- Datadog or a comparable observability stack.

## Our Values

At Rivia, we are committed to excellence, continuous learning, and the success of both our customers and our team. If you are driven to exceed targets, eager to shape the future of clinical trials, and passionate about making a meaningful difference in the biotech industry, Rivia is the place for you.

- In it to Win it: Approach every challenge with determination, resilience, and a drive, aiming for the best outcomes and solutions.
- Embrace change: We see change as an opportunity for growth, innovation, and improvement, continuously evolving to stay one step ahead
- Why not?: Asking why not, instead of why, allows us to show our curiosity, allowing us to challenge assumptions and explore new possibilities.
- Find the gap: We are curious and we proactively approach identifying opportunities and solving problems before they arise.
- Collective accountability: We are one team, on one mission and we are committed to shared responsibilities and mutual support, enabling trust and collaboration.
- Value add solutions: Know better. Act better. We are dedicated to delivering meaningful and impactful results.

## About Rivia

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rivia builds a unified intelligence layer for clinical trials, using AI agents to transform fragmented trial data into structured, actionable insights for biotechs and pharmaceutical companies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Zurich, Switzerland
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Erik Scalfaro (CEO), Tiago Kieliger (CTO), Henk Streefkerk (Chief Medical Officer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare IT / Clinical Trial Intelligence
- **Target customers**: Biotech and pharmaceutical companies running clinical trials (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To be the leading unified clinical trial data platform, driving therapeutic innovation through the power of technology. The company’s vision is to help bring new therapies to market at a fraction of today’s cost.

## Products & Services
- **Rivia Core Intelligence Layer**: Unifies fragmented clinical trial data from any vendor or file into a single, structured foundation mapped to protocol logic, visits, and endpoints. Serves as the base for all workflows and agents. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/)
- **Rivia Detect (Agentic Data Quality)**: AI agents that continuously run clinical checks across all data, cluster issues into root causes, propose corrective actions, and automate resolution workflows (e.g., drafting queries, preparing site communication). [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/)
- **Rivia Spark (Visual Intelligence)**: A natural-language interface that transforms user questions into dynamic graphs and cohorts, enabling instant data exploration. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/)
- **Rivia Spark Patient Profile Assistant**: An AI-powered conversational agent embedded in the Patient Profile to answer questions about individual patients regarding adverse events, biomarkers, visits, and trends. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
    - **Total Funding**: $18.2M ([linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/rivia-sa))
        - Series A (March 2026): $15M led by Earlybird Venture Capital
        - Seed Round (June 2024): $3.2M led by Speedinvest
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Earlybird Venture Capital (Lead, Series A), Speedinvest (Lead, Seed)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 66.7% year-over-year to 22 employees, with a 500% increase in job postings year-over-year. The platform has been adopted by European and US biotechs running global clinical trials, demonstrating measurable impact in trial execution efficiency and therapeutic understanding.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified data layer**: Rivia’s platform ingests data from any vendor or file format, harmonizing it into reusable, trial-specific models—solving a major fragmentation problem in clinical trials.
- **Agentic AI**: The platform deploys specialized AI agents for data quality, visual intelligence, and patient profiling, moving beyond simple dashboards to autonomous workflow execution.
- **Speed of deployment**: Rivia claims customers can go live in under 20 days by leveraging existing data access methods and automated integration. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/)
- **Deep domain expertise**: Founded by a team combining technical and medical expertise (CEO, CTO, and Chief Medical Officer), giving the product credibility in a highly regulated industry.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the platform**: Growing the team across engineering, AI, sales, and people functions to expand product capabilities and customer reach.
- **Embedding intelligence**: Continuing to develop and refine AI agents that operate across the entire clinical trial lifecycle.
- **Expanding market presence**: Building on existing traction with European and US biotechs to capture a larger share of the clinical trial software market.

## Why Work Here
- **Impactful mission**: Employees are directly involved in accelerating the development of new therapies and getting better treatments to patients faster. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/careers)
- **Culture of ownership and collaboration**: Employee testimonials highlight growth, ownership, and a collaborative environment that encourages continuous learning and innovation. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/careers)
- **Fast-growing startup**: With 66.7% headcount growth, 500% growth in job postings, and a recent $15M Series A, the company is in a strong growth phase.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid model, with primary offices in Zurich, Switzerland, and a smaller presence in Blandford, Massachusetts. Typical time on-site is expected. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/rivia)
- **Open roles (as of recent data)**: Senior Frontend (Full-stack) Engineer, Senior AI Engineer, Quality Assurance (Compliance) Manager, Head of People, Account Executive, Senior Backend (Full-stack) Engineer, and Solutions Engineer. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/rivia-sa)

## Sources
1. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/)
2. [rivia.com/about](https://www.rivia.com/about)
3. [rivia.com/careers](https://www.rivia.com/careers)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/rivia)
5. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/rivia-sa)
6. [jobs.gem.com/rivia](https://jobs.gem.com/rivia)

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