Ginkgo Bioworks

Ginkgo Bioworks

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

Boston, Massachusetts · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$134k-$190kDetected 153 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentData StructuresGitAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDGraphQLRESTData EngineeringLLMsAI OrchestrationCybersecurityComplianceTest AutomationHIPAAPublic HealthBioinformaticsEpidemiology

About the role

  • Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe's growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more.
  • This role strongly prefers candidates located in the Boston area with the ability to regularly commute to our Seaport headquarters.
  • Clearance sponsorship will be available.

Responsibilities

  • Develop high-performance full-stack applications that translate complex biological data and operational needs into intuitive software using Python and modern JavaScript frameworks
  • Champion an AI-first mindset, leveraging generative AI tools and LLM-based assistants to accelerate feature development, optimize code quality, and automate routine engineering tasks
  • Collaborate with cross-functional domain experts to architect and operate on biological datasets (genomic, diagnostic, or epidemiological), ensuring that surveillance workflows maintain high standards for data integrity, provenance, and security.
  • Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines where automated unit, integration, and security testing are treated as mandatory gates for every code deployment.
  • Drive engineering excellence by leading technical design reviews and providing critical feedback on software modularity, while upholding rigorous standards for documentation, observability, and long-term maintainability
  • Support production systems by monitoring performance, troubleshooting issues, and continuously improving reliability, including on-call support and triage in off hours
  • Experience building and consuming APIs (REST and/or GraphQL).
  • Experience developing modern web frontends using JavaScript/TypeScript and frameworks such as React.
  • Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.
  • Due to the nature of this role, candidates should expect to support U.S. Government customers.

Requirements

  • 6-8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant full-stack development work, including ownership of complex systems and cross-team technical initiatives.
  • Strong proficiency in Python for backend development (our primary programming language).
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) into daily workflows to increase productivity and code reliability
  • Proven experience collaborating domain experts (scientific, operations, product, etc) to translate complex biological data (genomic, diagnostic, or epidemiological) into robust software solutions and actionable insights
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Experience with data pipelines, workflow orchestration, or analytics platforms.
  • Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous problem spaces where requirements evolve
  • Candidates must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance per business requirements.
  • In connection therewith, candidates must be willing to undergo a background investigation and meet eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

  • Preferred Capabilities and Experience

Compensation

  • The base salary range for this role is $134,300.00-$189,900.00.

Benefits

  • Our mission extends across public health, national security, and global defense, ensuring nations can rapidly identify dangerous pathogens, understand where threats originate, and respond with confidence.

Company info

  • Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.
  • We are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join the Biosecurity engineering team.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Clearance sponsorship will be available.
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