Remote Senior Software Engineer

At Element Biosciences, we are passionate about our mission to empower the scientific community with more freedom and flexibility to accelerate our collective impact on humanity. We have built a highly efficient product-driven organization where employees can learn, grow, and thrive in a challenging but encouraging environment. We are committed to scientific integrity, collegiality, honesty, objectivity, and openness.

We’re in search of a talented full stack Software Engineer that is cloud experienced and understands distributed systems. We are looking for someone that can contribute to all areas of the software stack including: the client, web services, back-end services, message streaming, transactional data stores and data warehouses. The right candidate has built microservices on top of a linux, docker and kubernetes stack - preferably using the GO programming language. Additionally, the right person will be ready to support their own development and deployment operations (devops), automate all their testing, as well as secure and support the system as a whole. This role will report to our Head of Cloud Software and will be a San Diego based/hybrid role.

If you possess the following and want to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to explore this role.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Collaborating remotely in a small growing team of fast paced solution oriented software engineers from various specialties
• Planning, designing and developing cloud based software utilizing microservices oriented architecture
• Automating, managing and supporting cloud environments in accordance with industry best practices and security guidelines
• Deploying and debugging cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle
• Providing software documentation and diagrams as required
• Employing problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and diagnose issues as needed
• Using your extensive knowledge of APIs to design services and integrate them with existing data providers in polyglot protocols and languages
• Design data models and storage based on multi-faceted technologies within best practices - SQL, NoSQL, Columnar, Object storage, etc
• Utilize message bus and streams to deliver replicated polyglot data stores and event-driven systems
• Building and designing systems that are fault tolerant, highly available, scalable and observable
• Drive devops automation to reduce or eliminate manual operations requirements
• Take ownership of assignments, ensuring quality with complete automation testing
• Stay current with industry trends, making recommendations as needed to help the company excel

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience
• Demonstrable vast experience in a major cloud provider, preferably AWS
• Three years experience in developing software using languages such as GO, Java, C# (netcore) or C++
• Industry experience in biotech or specifically genomics is a nice to have
• Experience with event-driven distributed microservices
• Experience working with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), K3S, Helm, MongoDB, Redis
• Knowledge of web services, HTTP1/2, API, gRPC, GraphQL
• Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP and distributed networks
• Database experience, including knowledge of SQL and NoSQL, and related data stores such as Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redshift, MariaDB
• Extensive experience with open-source technology, software development and system engineering
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, and the ability to stay focused on completing tasks and meeting goals within a busy workspace
• Skilled at working in tandem with a team of remote engineers, or alone as required

Physical Requirements:

• Frequently moves boxes weighing up to 20 pounds.

Location:

• San Diego - hybrid

Travel:

• Up to 10% domestic travel, as needed

Job Type:

• Full-time/Exempt

Base Compensation Pay Range:

• $127,000 - $167,000

In addition to base compensation noted above, you will be eligible for stock options, discretionary annual bonus, no cost health insurance plans, 401k with company match, and flexible paid time off.

Please note: Base compensation will depend on multiple factors, including geographic location, qualifications, and experience.

We foster an environment such that all people are afforded the freedom to pursue their passions without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.