Platform Engineer, Biotech
Core
Design and operate secure, governed data infrastructure and production pipelines for clinical, genomic, and imaging biomedical data to support scientific and machine learning teams.
Role type
Senior Platform Engineer (Data Infrastructure & Bioinformatics)
Builds
Cloud data platforms, data warehouses, reproducible bioinformatics workflows, and training-ready datasets for ML models.
Domain
Biotechnology, Genomics, Clinical Data, Machine Learning Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Python, Go, CI/CD, Cloud Data Platforms (AWS), Docker, Workflow Orchestration (Nextflow), Data Catalogs, SQL, Bioinformatics workflows
Preferred skills
GPU workloads, OMOP, FHIR, R, HIPAA/GDPR/SOC 2 compliance, Large-scale data pipelines
Technologies
Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Nextflow, Python, Go, SQL
Responsibilities
Build and maintain cloud data platform components (storage, lakehouse, lineage); Design and operate data warehouses for clinical and molecular data; Develop reproducible bioinformatics workflows; Implement data quality checks and visualizations; Deliver versioned datasets for model training; Operate production infrastructure (security, observability, cost optimization).
