Clera

Platform Engineer, Biotech

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5 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$180k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain cloud data platforms, including storage, lakehouse architecture, catalogs, lineage, dataset versioning, and access layers.
  • Design and operate Kubernetes clusters, infrastructure-as-code systems, CI/CD pipelines, and production deployment systems.
  • Create reproducible bioinformatics pipelines for genomics, proteomics, and other biomedical data using workflow tools and cloud batch compute.
  • Build data quality checks, biological validation, and visualizations for datasets and pipeline outputs.
  • Develop orchestration and scheduling for distributed workloads and prepare versioned datasets for model training and partner deployment.
  • Own infrastructure reliability, observability, security, and cost optimization, including GPU and distributed machine learning workloads.

Requirements

  • Two to five years of experience building data infrastructure and production pipelines, ideally in biotech, diagnostics, biobanking, health data, or a related field.
  • Production experience operating Kubernetes clusters and building infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar tools.
  • Strong Python and/or Go programming skills, with experience shipping tested and documented production code.
  • Experience designing CI/CD and deployment systems and building orchestration or scheduling for distributed workloads.
  • Familiarity with AWS or another major cloud provider, Docker, Nextflow or similar workflow managers, lakehouses, data warehouses, and data catalogs.
  • Experience with sensitive clinical or biological data and standards such as OMOP or FHIR is valuable; R and SQL are also useful.
  • Experience with GPU infrastructure, distributed training, or large-scale data pipelines is a plus.
  • Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate.

Benefits

  • Base salary is $180,000 to $240,000 annually.
  • Hybrid work in San Francisco, California.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

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