24 days ago
Base Salary
$220k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, implementation, and delivery of major initiatives across cloud infrastructure, workflow platforms, and data platforms.
- Lead architecture and design reviews and influence technical decisions across the engineering team.
- Mentor mid-level engineers through code reviews, design documents, and pairing.
- Build and improve AI-coding tooling, including agent-driven software development tools.
- Partner with the team lead on roadmap, prioritization, and complex technical decisions.
- Collaborate with bioinformaticians, scientists, and R&D engineers to translate needs into platform capabilities.
- Ship production software for internal or external end users and own multi-quarter technical initiatives.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience across a range of systems and problem types.
- Production experience designing for a major cloud platform, with AWS preferred or GCP/Azure equivalent.
- Production experience with Kubernetes or an equivalent container orchestration platform, including cluster design, scheduling, networking, and workload patterns.
- Production experience with Terraform or an equivalent infrastructure-as-code tool, including shared modules and multi-environment deployments.
- Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, Go, or Java.
- Experience shipping end-user software and understanding product requirements, user feedback, and competing priorities.
- Previous engineering team leadership and mentorship of junior engineers.
- Experience working in fast-moving, startup-like environments and delivering quickly.
- Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Go, Groovy, Terraform, Helm, Nextflow, WDL, Django, and React.
- Interest in AI-native development and building tooling that improves engineering productivity.
- Preferred experience includes scientific or bioinformatics computing, LIMS or laboratory data systems, workflow orchestration, ETL or data pipelines, and HPC or batch-compute platforms.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and benefits.
- Annual performance incentive bonus and long-term equity awards.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
- 401(k) with company match, paid time off, company holidays, commuter benefits, wellness and work-life benefits, and referral program.
- Eligible employees and immediate family members receive free testing and fertility care benefits.
- South San Francisco, California is preferred; remote work is optional.
- Full-time position.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowArgo CDAWSAzureDjangoGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGroovyHelmJavaKubernetesPythonReactTerraform
About Natera
Natera develops and sells cell-free DNA-based diagnostic tests for oncology, women’s health, and organ transplant care, used by hospitals and clinicians. Its portfolio includes non-invasive prenatal testing and carrier screening, minimal residual disease monitoring for cancer, and transplant rejection assessment, delivered as CLIA/CAP-accredited lab services. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Natera is a public company listed on NASDAQ.