Lead Platform Engineer

About the Role

Lead platform engineering for a data infrastructure company, building the foundational systems that turn diverse scientific data into a reliable, queryable knowledge base. You will set architectural direction, strengthen security and engineering practices, and help grow the platform team.

What You'll Do

• Own the architecture, delivery, security, and scaling of the core data and execution platform.
• Build and operate ingestion pipelines, APIs, microservices, and storage that normalize varied scientific inputs while preserving data provenance.
• Manage knowledge graph and vector search systems to support combined structured and semantic retrieval.
• Develop high-concurrency platform services in Go and Python, including controlled agent write access and isolated execution environments.
• Set security boundaries for authentication, tenant isolation, secrets, encryption, and zero-trust access.
• Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability, and establish service objectives and reusable developer workflows.
• Set engineering standards through architecture guidance, code reviews, mentoring, and team building.
• Partner with company leadership on team design, interviewing, and platform engineering recruitment.

What We're Looking For

• At least 5 years of platform or infrastructure engineering experience, with a track record building and operating production backend infrastructure, data platforms, or distributed systems.
• Dedicated infrastructure engineering experience in addition to software engineering.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and modern CI/CD systems.
• Experience designing ingestion for messy, multi-source data, including schema harmonization and entity resolution.
• Proficiency with Go, Python, FastAPI, TypeDB/TypeQL, Qdrant, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus.
• Experience with computational biology, biotech data systems, or compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $220,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available.

Location

On-site, five days per week in San Francisco, California. Relocation assistance is available.