Lead Platform Engineer

About the Role

Join the platform engineering team at a scientific data infrastructure company as its senior engineering anchor. You will shape the foundational data and execution platform that turns scattered laboratory data into a unified, queryable resource for scientists and AI agents.

What You'll Do

• Own the platform's architecture, implementation, security posture, and scaling strategy.

• Build and maintain data pipelines, APIs, microservices, and storage layers that structure diverse scientific inputs while preserving provenance.

• Manage knowledge graphs with TypeDB and TypeQL, and vector search with Qdrant, to support hybrid retrieval.

• Develop high-concurrency services in Go and Python, with controlled agent write boundaries and isolated execution environments.

• Design service authentication, tenant isolation, secrets management, encryption, and other zero-trust security controls.

• Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability using Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus.

• Establish SLOs, developer workflows, architectural standards, and code review practices while mentoring engineers and helping grow the platform team.

What We're Looking For

• Three to seven years of platform or infrastructure engineering experience, including building and operating production backend infrastructure, data platforms, or distributed systems.

• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and modern CI/CD systems.

• Experience designing ETL or ELT pipelines for complex, unstructured enterprise or scientific data.

• Hands-on experience with Go, Python, FastAPI, TypeDB or TypeQL, and Qdrant is relevant.

• Scientific computing, computational biology, biotech data, or experience with SOC 2 and similar compliance frameworks is a plus.

• Dedicated infrastructure engineering experience is important; this is not a backend software engineering role alone.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual salary range: $220,000 to $300,000 USD. Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available.

Location

On-site, five days per week in San Francisco, California, United States.