Senior Platform Engineer
Salary:
$200,000 - $225,000 - Per Annum
Locations:
Redwood City, San Francisco, California, United States
Type:
Permanent
Published:
February 28, 2026
Contact:
Robert Gwillim
Ref:
20063
Required Skills:
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Job title: Senior Platform Engineer
Job type: Perm
Salary: $200,000 - $225,000 + bonus + stock
Role Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
Visa requirements: US Work Authorization (no sponsorship provided)
The company: Our client is on a mission to accelerate new cures and promote a healthier planet by unlocking a new level of productivity for scientists who use DNA tools to bring their ideas to life. Their DNA sequencing tools are used daily by 50,000+ innovators, including Nobel prize winners, dynamic biotech startups, research labs, and DIY biohackers.
Their global network of labs operates day and night to enable world-changing discoveries. In 2025 they saved scientists 4 million hours of time, radically accelerating their research. Every team member at the firm plays a crucial role in driving forward the future of biotech research.
Role and responsibilities: You'll work on backend services that power the firm’s impact on the biotech ecosystem, wearing many hats from:
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Job type: Perm
Salary: $200,000 - $225,000 + bonus + stock
Role Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
Visa requirements: US Work Authorization (no sponsorship provided)
The company: Our client is on a mission to accelerate new cures and promote a healthier planet by unlocking a new level of productivity for scientists who use DNA tools to bring their ideas to life. Their DNA sequencing tools are used daily by 50,000+ innovators, including Nobel prize winners, dynamic biotech startups, research labs, and DIY biohackers.
Their global network of labs operates day and night to enable world-changing discoveries. In 2025 they saved scientists 4 million hours of time, radically accelerating their research. Every team member at the firm plays a crucial role in driving forward the future of biotech research.
Role and responsibilities: You'll work on backend services that power the firm’s impact on the biotech ecosystem, wearing many hats from:
- Building cloud infrastructure and data pipelines to house, process and deliver terabytes of sequencing data and insights to customers around the world
- Building system services to reliably orchestrate and ingest raw data from sequencers and on-prem Linux servers
- Developing data models to efficiently represent complex sequencing analysis outputs
- Building high performance backend services, powering their frontend bioinformatics analytics tools
- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, Physics, Bioinformatics or technical subject
- 3+ years of industry experience
- Experience with REST API best practices (such as OpenAPI) and designing service-oriented architectures
- Experience with SQL and data modeling in relational databases
- Experience with full-stack Python web frameworks like Flask or Django
- Experience working in AWS/GCP and using infrastructure-as-code tools, like Terraform or AWS CDK
- Experience with orchestrating cloud microservices, including ECS and Lambda
- Experience building distributed systems with task queues (such as Celery and SQS)
- Experience working with Linux servers, for example systemd services, basic networking and application deployment tools like ansible
- (Preferred) Familiarity with DNA sequencing and bioinformatics workflows - especially Illumina & ONT sequencing
- (Preferred) Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Nextflow, Snakemake,Metaflow and StepFunctions
- Enjoys high agency and high ownership work
- Is curious about learning from other people’s expertise in scientific/biological domains
- Is excited to make an impact on the scientific community, enabling the next generation of medicines, biotechnology, and even plant-based-meats!
- Can lead projects from idea to production independently
- Is a life-long learner
- Is excited to work in a tight-knit fast-paced environment with a motivated team
- Values clear communication and helping others learn new skills
- Evidence of leadership and be heading in the direction of becoming a leader in their field.
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