Staff Engineer, Software (Deployment)

Pacific Biosciences seeks a Staff Engineer to design and deploy compute platforms for sequencing instruments across on-premises, data center, and cloud environments. This role requires setting technical direction for deployment architecture, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering solutions that meet regulated customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud deployment models, including infrastructure-as-code and delivery pipelines for data analysis services
• Consolidate build infrastructure onto a unified CI/CD platform with containerized, reproducible builds and dependency management
• Own image architecture for instruments: composition, performance, driver integration, and hardware variant support
• Establish supply-chain security capabilities: artifact signing, verified boot, SBOM generation, vulnerability management, and hardening baselines
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, and Field Service to ensure auditable, predictable deployments and validated builds

Requirements

• 10+ years systems, platform, release, or deployment engineering experience; or Master's degree plus 8+ years
• Demonstrated experience delivering Linux-based systems on appliances or purpose-built hardware to customers
• Production-level proficiency in Python and shell scripting for automation
• Deep Linux expertise: boot chains, systemd, filesystems, packaging, kernel and driver integration
• Experience designing and operating automated, reproducible image build pipelines
• Software delivery experience under formal change control in regulated or high-consequence environments
• Hands-on CI/CD expertise at scale: pipeline-as-code, containerized builds, agent fleet management, infrastructure-as-code