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
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ABOUT THE ROLE
Join the platform engineering team at a data infrastructure company building tools that turn fragmented laboratory data into a unified, queryable resource for scientists and AI systems. As the senior engineering anchor, you will shape the architecture, security, and scale of this foundational platform.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own the platform's architecture, execution, security posture, and scaling strategy.
- Build and maintain production ingestion pipelines, APIs, microservices, and storage layers that normalize diverse scientific data while preserving provenance.
- Manage knowledge graphs and vector search systems to support combined semantic and structured retrieval.
- Develop high-concurrency services in Go and Python, including controlled agent write boundaries and isolated execution environments.
- Design security controls for service authentication, tenant isolation, secrets management, encryption, and zero-trust access.
- Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability, and establish service-level objectives and internal developer workflows.
- Set engineering standards, review code, mentor teammates, and help grow the platform engineering team.
- Partner with company leadership on team design, interviewing, and recruiting as the organization scales.
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 owning ingestion for messy, multi-source data, including schema harmonization and entity resolution.
- Proficiency with Go and Python or FastAPI, plus experience with knowledge graphs or vector search technologies.
- Experience designing production security boundaries and establishing engineering practices, observability, and service-level objectives.
- Dedicated infrastructure engineering experience in addition to software engineering; biotech data systems, computational biology, and SOC 2 or similar compliance experience are a plus.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary range: $220,000 to $300,000 annually. Equity is not specified. Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week. Relocation assistance is available.