Clera

Platform Engineer, Biotech

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

Base Salary

$180k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain cloud data platforms with object storage, lakehouse layouts, catalogs, lineage, dataset versioning, query layers, and access layers.
  • Design and operate systems for clinical and molecular data, including harmonization, metadata, dataset releases, retention, governance, and data integration.
  • Develop reproducible, containerized bioinformatics workflows for omics data using cloud batch compute.
  • Build data quality checks, biological validation, and visualizations to identify and resolve data issues.
  • Deliver training-ready datasets, versioned data releases, and interfaces for deploying data alongside models in partner environments.
  • Operate reliable, secure, observable, and cost-effective production infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters and distributed workload orchestration.

Requirements

  • Two to five years of experience building data infrastructure and production pipelines in biotech, diagnostics, biobanking, health data, or related fields involving sensitive biological or clinical data.
  • Production experience operating Kubernetes, building infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar tools, and designing deployment systems.
  • Strong Python and/or Go skills, with experience owning infrastructure reliability, observability, security, and cost optimization.
  • Experience with distributed job scheduling and orchestration, large-scale data pipelines, and infrastructure supporting machine learning workloads.
  • Familiarity with a major cloud provider, preferably AWS; workflow tools such as Nextflow; lakehouse and warehouse design; data catalogs; and Docker.
  • Experience with omics or bioinformatics workflows and biomedical data standards such as OMOP or FHIR is useful.
  • R or SQL experience is a plus.
  • Familiarity with HIPAA, GDPR, or SOC 2 compliance controls and associated audit evidence is beneficial.
  • GPU cluster or distributed training experience is valuable.

Benefits

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

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