Lead Platform Engineer

About the Role

Lead platform engineering for the compute, data, AI, and security infrastructure behind a biotechnology sequencing operation. You will work across software and scientific teams to build reliable systems that move sequencing data from lab devices through analysis and delivery.

What You'll Do

• Own services that orchestrate lab devices, including robots, sequencers, and on-premises Linux servers, as well as the data ingestion pipeline.

• Build AWS infrastructure and data pipelines to store, process, and deliver large volumes of sequencing data.

• Design queues, workflow orchestration, and scheduling systems to coordinate millions of bioinformatics tasks.

• Develop AI infrastructure and internal tools for agents that monitor operational quality, coordinate logistics, and support adaptive bioinformatics analysis.

• Lead ambiguous cross-functional projects from concept through production, while mentoring teammates and contributing hands-on.

What We're Looking For

• At least 5 years of experience in platform, backend, or infrastructure engineering, with strong individual contributor experience.

• Strong AWS orchestration skills, including ECS, Batch, and Step Functions, plus Python backend experience with frameworks such as FastAPI or Django.

• Experience building and operating reliable distributed systems, including queues, orchestration, and state machines, in production.

• Linux server administration and distributed task queue experience, such as Celery or SQS.

• Experience with ML infrastructure or training pipelines, and familiarity with current AI tooling; experience building LLM or agent systems is valuable.

• Experience leading projects and mentoring engineers on small teams, including meaningful work at a startup scaling from early stage to later growth.

• A degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, or equivalent technical experience, and curiosity about biotechnology or scientific domains.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual salary range: $205,000 to $235,000. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Hybrid role based in South San Francisco, California, United States.