Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Freenome, a high-growth biotech company, as an experienced infrastructure engineer to build a cloud-native machine learning platform. You will provide strategic and tactical leadership, ensuring regulatory compliance and cross-functional collaboration. This role requires strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, along with extensive experience in production infrastructure, automation, and cloud technologies. You will play a key role in building systems that directly save lives. The position offers a competitive salary, pre-IPO equity, cash bonuses, and a full range of benefits. Freenome values diversity and is an equal-opportunity employer.

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in computer science or a related technical field, or comparable experience
• 8+ years of experience with production infrastructure, automation, and monitoring with a track record of building and deploying infrastructure as part of a high-functioning team
• Multi-public cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Deep knowledge and proven working experience in managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure services, networking, security
• Proven experience in leveraging automation tools and infrastructure-as-code techniques as a key strategy for managing infrastructure
• Production deployment automation tools, such as Terraform or Pulumi
• Proven experience implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
• Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems
• Software design and development expertise, especially in Python
• Practical knowledge of Linux internals
• A systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Provide direct, strategic and tactical leadership to your department
• Provide leadership in developing new strategies, methodologies, and solutions to improve execution towards department- and company-level objectives
• Partner with our QA Department to ensure the highest level of regulatory compliance with recognized quality best practice
• Translate business segment strategy into cross-functional plans and guide plan execution
• Accountable for the performance and results of your department (Monitoring performance and initiating action to strengthen results)
• Proactively communicate cross-functionally with key stakeholders to adapt as needed through reprioritization and alignment
• Ensure budgets, resourcing and timelines meet company requirements
• Empowers department to take calculated risks and make mistakes as a team but collectively learn from these experiences, ensuring institutional knowledge is retained and applied in the future
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, using trial and error to thoughtfully iterate towards the best solution balancing time and resource constraints
• Anticipate factors that could cause issues that have departmental or cross-functional impact and formulates preventive strategies
• Proactively requests feedback from others and are open to continuous feedback
• Consistently delivers actionable and timely feedback to people at all levels in a way that strengthens relationships and enables functional initiatives to advance more quickly
• Provide consistent communications to key functional and cross-functional stakeholders on progress and updates
• Guides department in effective communication and collaboration, avoiding triangulation or churn and fostering direct communication
• Adapts communications to audience requirements to optimize understanding and results, adapting to diverse communication styles
• Build and maintain strong, healthy relationships with cross-functional peers
• Provide representation for your department to executive leadership through reporting, presentations and Quarterly Business Review type meetings
• Lead by example, integrate and reinforce our Values and Principles as much as possible
• Coaches and provides guidance to direct reports to foster our Values and Principles across departments
• Recognizes Values and Principles gaps in your department on an ongoing basis and implement solutions and creates opportunities to grow in those areas
• Actively identifies internal transfer and growth opportunities, empowering team members to pursue them
• Perform quarterly talent reviews
• Addresses performance issues with direct, constructive and actionable feedback
• Provides inspiration and leads department towards the company mission, vision, and culture
• Gives direction and organizational clarity in roles and responsibilities to execute on department and company OKRs more effectively
• Effectively cascades organizational strategy and contributes to the development of organizational procedures
• Actively involved in recruitment, attracting and retaining top talent to build high performing teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in biotechnology, bioinformatics, regulated software, or similar field
• Monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing tools, such as Prometheus, fluentd, or Jaeger
• Data pipelines, such as Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Argo, Beam, or Flink
• Experience in a startup environment
• Experience with software in a regulated environment
• Exposure to big data, especially biological and clinical data

Benefits

• Pre-IPO equity
• Cash bonuses
• Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits