Lead Platform Engineer
- San Francisco, CA, United States
$220,000 to $300,000 USD / year
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- Pay
- $220,000 to $300,000 USD / year
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Lead platform engineering for a scientific data infrastructure team building a foundational platform that turns diverse laboratory data into a unified, queryable knowledge base. You will own its architecture, security, and scale while establishing engineering practices and helping grow the team.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Set the architectural direction and build production ingestion pipelines, APIs, microservices, and storage layers that normalize heterogeneous data while preserving provenance.
- Operate knowledge graphs and vector search systems to support hybrid symbolic and semantic retrieval for agentic workloads.
- Build high-concurrency services in Go and Python, including controlled write boundaries and isolated execution environments.
- Design security controls for service authentication, tenant isolation, secrets, encryption, and zero-trust access.
- Own Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, SLOs, and internal developer workflows.
- Set engineering standards through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and team building.
- Partner with company leadership on engineering hiring and platform team growth.
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.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and modern CI/CD systems, alongside dedicated infrastructure engineering experience.
- Experience designing ingestion for messy, multi-source data, including schema harmonization and entity resolution.
- Proficiency in Go and Python or FastAPI, and familiarity with TypeDB/TypeQL, Qdrant, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus.
- Experience establishing security boundaries and engineering rigor for production platforms; biotech data experience and SOC 2 or similar compliance experience are beneficial.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $220,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, United States, five days per week. Relocation assistance is available.