Clera

Platform Engineer, Biotech

Clera
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2 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$180k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain cloud data platform components including object storage, lakehouse architecture, catalogs, lineage, versioning, and access systems.
  • Design and operate governed data stores and releases for clinical records, molecular features, metadata, and linked datasets.
  • Develop reproducible, containerized bioinformatics pipelines for omics data using cloud batch compute.
  • Implement data quality checks, biological validation, and visualizations to help teams identify data issues.
  • Prepare versioned, training-ready datasets and build data deployment interfaces for partner environments.
  • Operate production infrastructure including Kubernetes, deployment systems, distributed workload scheduling, security, observability, reliability, and cost optimization.

Requirements

  • Two to five years of experience building data infrastructure and production pipelines in biotech, diagnostics, biobanking, health data, or a related setting involving sensitive biological or clinical data.
  • Production experience operating Kubernetes, writing infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar tools, and shipping tested Python and/or Go code.
  • Experience designing CI/CD and deployment systems, job orchestration, and infrastructure for machine learning workloads.
  • Familiarity with a major cloud provider, preferably AWS, workflow managers such as Nextflow, lakehouse and warehouse design, data catalogs, and orchestration.
  • Experience with large-scale data pipelines and bioinformatics or omics data such as WGS, RNA-seq, or proteomics.
  • Helpful familiarity with OMOP, FHIR, R, or SQL, plus understanding of HIPAA, GDPR, or SOC 2 compliance controls.
  • Strong engineering practices in testing, documentation, code review, and provenance; GPU or distributed training experience is valuable.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in San Francisco, California; candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.
  • Base salary of $180,000 to $240,000 annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

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Data EngineeringDevOps
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