Lead Platform Engineer

About the Role

Join the platform engineering team at a data infrastructure company serving scientific and AI-driven workflows. You will lead the architecture and development of a foundational platform that turns diverse laboratory data into a reliable, queryable knowledge base.

What You'll Do

• Own the architecture, delivery, security, and scaling of the platform's data and execution layers.

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

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

• Develop high-concurrency services in Go and Python, including controls for agent access and isolated execution.

• Establish security boundaries for authentication, tenant isolation, secrets, encryption, and zero-trust practices.

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

• Set engineering standards through architecture guidance, code reviews, mentorship, and team building.

• Partner with company leadership on team design, recruiting, and hiring.

What We're Looking For

• At least 5 years of platform or infrastructure engineering experience, with a track record building and operating production backend infrastructure, data platforms, or distributed systems.

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

• Experience designing ingestion for messy, multi-source data, including schema harmonization and entity resolution.

• Strong Go and Python skills; familiarity with FastAPI, TypeDB or TypeQL, Qdrant, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus is relevant.

• Dedicated infrastructure engineering experience alongside software engineering, with the ability to guide architecture and mentor engineers.

• Scientific data, computational biology, biotech, or compliance experience is beneficial.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

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