Platform Engineer, Biotech

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Platform Engineer, Biotech in USA

Clera
Full time
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USA
10/22/2026
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San Francisco, CA

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.

Salary: $180k - $240k/yr

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