Calico
Data Engineer, Human Cohorts
South San Francisco, CA
Sponsorship not specified$191k-$195kDetected 16 days ago
PythonReactFastAPIFull-Stack DevelopmentSQLAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDMachine LearningData EngineeringData ScienceResearchLeadershipMentoring
About the role
- To succeed, you will need to be an enthusiastic team player, detail-oriented, extremely organized, and comfortable working on complex data, software, and scientific problems.
- Actual pay will be based on a number of factors including experience and qualifications.
- This position is also eligible for two annual cash bonuses.
Responsibilities
- End-to-End Project Ownership: Collaborate with data scientists and bench scientists to gather requirements, architect solutions, and deploy production-grade software that facilitates data movement, transformation, analysis, and visualization
- Data Flow Architecture: Define and optimize data flows across the organization
- Full-Stack Tool Development: Develop data systems and internal web applications (using React and Python) that allow stakeholders to review, visualize, and communicate complex scientific data
- 4+ years (for BS/MS) or 1-2 years (for PhD) of professional software or data engineering experience developing robust, production-grade, and high-performance R&D-focused information systems
- Fluency in Python and SQL with a strong grasp of software and data engineering principles (testing, modularity, design patterns, data modeling)
- Proven ability to lead complex projects involving diverse stakeholders (e.g., ML engineers, computational biologists, bench scientists) from concept to production
- Calico is seeking a Data Engineer to join our highly collaborative Engineering team and focus on developing high-performance research data infrastructure for large human cohorts.
- In this position, you will be the engineering lead for data infrastructure to support our human biology teams.
- You will drive projects from requirements-gathering to production deployment, engineering high-performance data systems that integrate with our internal data systems and our internally-developed AI platform.
- Collaborate with data scientists and bench scientists to gather requirements, architect solutions, and deploy production-grade software that facilitates data movement, transformation, analysis, and visualization
Requirements
- Experience working with large-scale biological datasets
- Strong experience with modern web frameworks and infrastructure, specifically FastAPI, React, Kubernetes, and Terraform
- Experience enforcing robust data governance policies and compliance with internal information security standards and best practices
Compensation
- The estimated base salary range for this role is $191,000 - $195,000.
- This position is also eligible for two annual cash bonuses.
Company info
- Calico (Calico Life Sciences LLC) is an Alphabet-founded research and development company whose mission is to harness advanced technologies and model systems to increase our understanding of the biology that controls human aging. Calico will use that knowledge to devise interventions that enable people to lead longer and healthier lives. Calico's highly innovative technology labs, its commitment to curiosity-driven discovery science, and, with academic and industry partners, its vibrant drug-development pipeline, together create an inspiring and exciting place to catalyze and enable medical breakthroughs.
- Position Description:
- Calico is seeking a Data Engineer to join our highly collaborative Engineering team and focus on developing high-performance research data infrastructure for large human cohorts. To succeed, you will need to be an enthusiastic team player, detail-oriented, extremely organized, and comfortable working on complex data, software, and scientific problems.
- In this position, you will be the engineering lead for data infrastructure to support our human biology teams. You will drive projects from requirements-gathering to production deployment, engineering high-performance data systems that integrate with our internal data systems and our internally-developed AI platform.
- Calico (Calico Life Sciences LLC) is an Alphabet-founded research and development company whose mission is to harness advanced technologies and model systems to increase our understanding of the biology that controls human aging.
- Calico will use that knowledge to devise interventions that enable people to lead longer and healthier lives.
- Calico's highly innovative technology labs, its commitment to curiosity-driven discovery science, and, with academic and industry partners, its vibrant drug-development pipeline, together create an inspiring and exciting place to catalyze and enable medical breakthroughs.
This listing is sourced directly from Calico's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.