Lead Platform Engineer

About the Role

As a senior engineering anchor on the platform team, you will own the architecture and operation of core data infrastructure for a scientific data platform. Your work will make complex laboratory data easier for scientists and AI systems to securely access and use.

What You'll Do

• Set the architectural direction, delivery priorities, security posture, and scaling strategy for the platform.

• Build and maintain ingestion pipelines, APIs, microservices, and storage systems that organize varied scientific data while preserving provenance.

• Operate knowledge graph and vector search systems to support combined semantic and structured retrieval.

• Develop high-concurrency services in Go and Python, including controlled agent write access and isolated execution environments.

• Design service authentication, tenant isolation, secrets management, encryption, and other security controls.

• Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability, and establish service objectives and developer workflows.

• Set engineering standards through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and team development.

What We're Looking For

• Three to seven years of platform or infrastructure engineering experience building and operating production backend infrastructure, data platforms, or distributed systems.

• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and modern CI/CD systems.

• Experience designing ETL or ELT pipelines for complex, unstructured enterprise or scientific data.

• Proficiency with Go, Python, FastAPI, TypeDB and TypeQL, Qdrant, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus.

• Dedicated infrastructure engineering experience, with the ability to guide architecture and raise engineering standards.

• Experience with computational biology, biotech data systems, or compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $220,000 to $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available.

Location

On-site, five days per week in San Francisco, California. Relocation assistance is available.