Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Owkin's Data Infrastructure team as a Backend Software Engineer and contribute to building and maintaining scalable data management and processing systems on AWS. You will design, implement, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure, contribute to data architecture evolution, collaborate with other engineers and researchers, support CI/CD pipelines, and ensure data security and compliance. This intermediate-level position requires significant software engineering experience on cloud infrastructure, proficiency in Python or Golang, AWS infrastructure-as-code management using Terraform, strong Docker experience, and experience in architectural design of complex systems. The role is based in Paris or Nantes, or remotely in France. Owkin offers a flexible work organization and a friendly working environment.

Requirements

• Significant experience as software engineer contributing on cloud infrastructure: this is an intermediate level position
• Experience with either python or golang
• Management of AWS infrastructure as code, using terraform
• Strong experience in Docker
• Experience in architectural design of complex systems, especially for complex data at scale
• Demonstrated attention to quality and software engineering processes, including observability and security: we run what we build
• Full professional proficiency in English: our team is distributed across Europe

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and services on AWS at the intersection of data engineering and AI tools
• Contribute to the design and evolution of our data architecture to support large-scale data processing while ensuring granular data access controls and security compliance
• Collaborate with data engineers, researchers and data scientists to understand their needs and implement solutions that enhance their productivity
• Support and improve our CI/CD pipelines, development workflows, and security practices
• Participate in incident response to ensure high availability and reliability
• Contribute to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Kubernetes
• Experience in Data Engineering
• Experience with MLOps practices
• Frontend skills
• Knowledge in healthcare or biomedical domains

Benefits

• Flexible work organization
• Friendly and informal working environment
• Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds