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Lead Platform Engineer

Engineering · Posted 4 months ago

Technical lead for the compute, data, AI, and security infrastructure that runs our sequencing operation.

Way of working
Hybrid
Location
South San Francisco, San Mateo, CA
Pay range
$205,000 to $235,000
Level
Staff
Experience
6+ years
Type
Full time
Visa sponsorship
Not offered for this role
The company
Biotechnology Research · 50 to 200 people

Skills that matter here

PythonAWSPostgreSQLKubernetesLinuxLLM tooling (LangGraph, Mastra, Agents SDK)

The full description

Technical lead for the compute, data, AI, and security infrastructure that runs our sequencing operation.

You will:

- Own core services that orchestrate lab devices (robots, sequencers, on-prem Linux servers) and the data ingestion pipeline

- Build cloud infrastructure and data pipelines to house, process, and deliver terabytes of sequencing data

- Design infrastructure to orchestrate millions of bioinformatics tasks (queues, workflow orchestration, scheduling)

- Build AI infrastructure and internal tooling to enable agentic systems:

- Quality Scientist Agents - monitor operations end-to-end, surface anomalies, and intervene/escalate when quality or reliability issues appear

- Logistics Agents - coordinate drivers around the world to move packages to labs and carriers

- Bioinformatics Coding Agents - long-running agents for adaptive analysis of diverse sample types with unknown/shifting data distributions

Culture

You are someone who:

- Enjoys high agency and high ownership work

- Can lead ambiguous, cross-functional projects from idea to production

- Is curious about learning from other people’s expertise in scientific/biological domains

- Is excited to make an impact on the scientific community

- Is a life-long learner

- Is excited to work in a tight-knit fast-paced environment with a motivated team

- Values clear communication, mentorship, and helping others learn new skills

- Excited about building on the bleeding edge

Interested in this one?

There is no apply button here on purpose. Tell us about yourself, we book a short call, and if this role fits we walk you through the company and ask before anything is sent. Always free for you.

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