Clera

Platform Engineer, Biotech

Clera
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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, dataset versioning, and query and access layers.
  • Design and operate governed data warehouses and systems for clinical records, molecular features, metadata, retention, and dataset releases.
  • Develop reproducible, containerized bioinformatics workflows for omics data using cloud batch compute.
  • Implement data quality checks, biological validation, and visualizations to identify issues across processing steps.
  • Deliver versioned, training-ready datasets and data deployment interfaces for model use in partner environments.
  • Operate production infrastructure covering Kubernetes, workload orchestration, security, reliability, observability, and cost optimization.
  • Design and operate CI/CD and deployment systems and implement infrastructure as code.

Requirements

  • Two to five years of experience building data infrastructure and production pipelines as a platform engineer in biotech, diagnostics, biobanking, health data, or a related field involving sensitive biological or clinical data.
  • Production experience operating Kubernetes clusters, writing infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar tools, and shipping tested, documented Python and/or Go code.
  • Experience designing CI/CD and deployment systems, orchestrating distributed workloads, and owning infrastructure reliability, observability, security, and cost.
  • Familiarity with a major cloud provider, preferably AWS, Docker, workflow managers such as Nextflow, lakehouse and warehouse design, data catalogs, and orchestration.
  • Experience with large-scale data pipelines, machine learning infrastructure, or GPU workloads is valuable.
  • Knowledge of omics workflows, bioinformatics tools, OMOP, FHIR, R, or SQL is relevant.
  • Experience implementing compliance controls and audit evidence for HIPAA, GDPR, or SOC 2 is beneficial.

Benefits

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

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