Platform Engineer, Biotech

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Platform Engineer, Biotech in USA new

Clera
Full time
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USA
11/07/2026
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San Francisco, CA

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.

Salary: $180k - $240k/yr

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