Veracyte

Senior Systems Engineer, IVD Software

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1 month ago
South San Francisco, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$183k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve system-level architecture for a Windows-based IVD software product deployed to customer environments.
  • Design, configure, and support deployments using IIS, SQL Server, WSL, and Docker across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud environments.
  • Identify and mitigate risks across operating systems, virtual machines, containers, networking, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Lead root-cause analysis of complex issues spanning applications, operating systems, databases, containers, and infrastructure.
  • Define supported deployment models, environment assumptions, constraints, and known failure modes.
  • Partner with software engineering on system dependencies, scalability limits, and operational risks.
  • Contribute to containerized and orchestrated deployment strategies and influence CI/CD and release processes.
  • Apply security hardening, access control, patching, and vulnerability-management practices.
  • Improve logging, monitoring, diagnostics, operational tooling, and deployment automation.
  • Maintain system architecture documentation, deployment guides, and operational playbooks.
  • Serve as a senior escalation point and mentor for system-level issues.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Minimum 6–7 years of experience supporting commercial product software.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Windows Server environments, including IIS and SQL Server in production.
  • Strong working knowledge of Linux systems such as Ubuntu and RHEL-based distributions in product deployments.
  • Proven experience with Docker and containerized application deployments.
  • Experience with VMware, Hyper-V, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, and storage services.
  • Ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues across software, operating-system, and infrastructure layers.
  • Experience developing automation scripts using Bash, PowerShell, Python, or similar languages.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release workflows in regulated or quality-focused environments.
  • Preferred experience with IVD, medical-device, or other regulated software products.
  • Preferred experience maintaining distributed products across 100+ enterprise customer installations.
  • Exposure to ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes is preferred.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code or configuration-management tools is preferred.
  • Familiarity with monitoring, logging, operational diagnostics, compliance, and audit expectations is preferred.
  • Ability to influence system architecture and technical direction without formal management responsibility.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits.
  • Potential eligibility for discretionary bonuses or incentives and restricted stock units.
  • Inclusive workplace with opportunities for growth and career development.

Tech Stack

AWSBashDockerKubernetesLinuxMicrosoft SQL ServerPowerShellPythonWindows

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About Veracyte

501-1,000 employees

Veracyte is a public diagnostics company that develops and commercializes genomic tests to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment decisions for clinicians and patients. Its menu includes tissue and RNA-based assays such as Afirma for thyroid nodules, Decipher for prostate cancer, and Prosigna for breast cancer, offered through CLIA labs and distributed kits. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in South San Francisco, the company trades on NASDAQ.

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