Lead Platform Engineer

About the Role

Join the platform engineering team at a data infrastructure and analytics company, where you will own the architecture and operation of a foundational platform for organizing scientific data. You will help build secure, scalable systems that support scientists and AI-powered workflows.

What You'll Do

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

• Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines, APIs, microservices, and storage layers that structure varied scientific inputs while preserving provenance.

• Operate knowledge graphs with TypeDB and TypeQL, plus Qdrant vector search, for combined symbolic and semantic 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 Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and observability using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.

• Establish SLOs and engineering practices, review code, mentor engineers, and help grow the platform team.

• Partner with company leadership on team design, candidate interviews, and platform engineering hiring.

What We're Looking For

• 3 to 7 years of experience in platform or infrastructure engineering, with dedicated infrastructure experience as well as software engineering.

• A track record building and operating production backend infrastructure, data platforms, or distributed systems.

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

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

• Experience with Go, Python, FastAPI, TypeDB, TypeQL, Qdrant, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus is relevant.

• Background in 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 annually. Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available. Relocation assistance is available.

Location

This is a full-time, on-site role in San Francisco, California, United States, five days per week.