Lead Platform Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE

Lead platform engineering for a data and infrastructure team building a foundational platform that turns heterogeneous laboratory data into a unified, queryable knowledge base. You will own its architecture, security, and scale, helping scientists and AI agents work with reliable, well-governed data.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Set the architectural direction and build production ingestion pipelines, APIs, microservices, and storage layers that normalize diverse scientific data while preserving provenance.
• Operate knowledge graphs and vector search systems to support hybrid symbolic and semantic retrieval.
• Build high-concurrency services in Go and Python, including controlled agent write boundaries and isolated execution environments.
• Design service authentication, tenant isolation, secrets management, encryption, and other zero-trust security controls.
• Own Kubernetes infrastructure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability, and establish SLOs and internal developer pathways.
• Set engineering standards through architecture, code reviews, mentorship, and support for building the platform team.

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 experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and modern CI/CD systems.
• Experience architecting ingestion for messy, multi-source data, including schema harmonization and entity resolution.
• Proficiency with Go and Python or FastAPI, plus production data systems such as knowledge graphs or vector search.
• Experience designing production security boundaries and improving early-stage infrastructure and engineering practices.
• Background in computational biology, biotech data systems, or SOC 2 and similar compliance work is beneficial.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship or transfer.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

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

LOCATION

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