Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

Job Description

• As a staff software engineer, you will be working with a team of talented engineers and scientists to create and maintain data infrastructure to advance Helix’s mission. You will play a leading role in designing and implementing reliable and innovative solutions to advance the use of genomic data while ruthlessly ensuring that this sensitive information is protected. • As a Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform, you will: • Innovate new ways to evolve our data platform. • Collaborate with product managers, bioinformaticians, scientists, other engineers, and business leaders. • Deploy and operate software with reliability and scale for our developers and health systems. • Establish and maintain strong engineering best practices. • Own systems and services from development to production. • Mentor other engineers to reinforce a culture of learning and teaching.

Qualifications

• Resides in the US, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Mexico or Hungary • 7+ years experience in software development and/or data management • Proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or similar • Proficiency in dimensional modeling, modern data warehousing, and SQL • Proficiency with distributed systems built on cloud infrastructure — AWS or similar • Experience with data pipeline orchestration platforms like Airflow • Experience developing and owning serverless (e.g., AWS Api Gateway, Lambda) and container-based (e.g. Docker) infrastructure • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling/frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK) • Thought leadership and a successful track record mentoring other engineers • Affinity for an engineering culture that emphasizes Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery • Proven track record of successful project deliveries improving how data value is realized at an organization

Benefits

• 11 paid holidays • Generous Accrued Time Off increasing with years of service • Generous paid sick time • Annual day of service