Plasmidsaurus
Platform Engineering Lead
San Francisco · Senior
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About the role
- Our sequencing services are used daily by thousands of innovators, including Nobel laureates, Fortune 100 pharma, and over 70,000 scientists.
- We began by revolutionizing plasmid sequencing, making it exponentially cheaper and faster, with innovative sequencing technologies and a global network of laboratories that turn samples into answers in hours, not weeks.
- Every team member at Plasmidsaurus plays a crucial role in driving the future of biotech research.
Requirements
- 7+ years of industry experience (or equivalent)
- Strong experience with REST API best practices (such as OpenAPI) and service-oriented architectures
- Strong experience with SQL and data modeling in relational databases (postgres)
- Strong experience with Python backend services (e.g., Flask/Django/FastAPI)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, like Terraform or AWS CDK
- Experience working with Linux servers (systemd services, basic networking, application deployment tools like ansible)
- Comfort operating production systems: incident response, debugging, performance, reliability
- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, Physics or technical subject
- Prior experience leading projects and mentoring engineers (people or technical leadership)
- Experience building LLM/agent systems (tooling, evaluation, safety/permissions, prompt + workflow design)
- Primarily developing with coding agents in all parts of software lifecycle - design, implementation, test, review
- Strong experience working in AWS for containerized task orchestration (Lambda, ECS, Batch, StepFunctions)
- Experience building distributed systems with task queues (such as Celery and SQS)
- Desire to learn about DNA sequencing bioinformatics algorithms and workflows
Company info
- Now we are expanding that same disruptive model across all of genomics.
- With the launch of our new RNA-seq service, we are taking a bold step toward our vision to sequence everything, providing scientists everywhere with faster, simpler, and more affordable access to the data that powers discovery.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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