Lead Platform Engineer

About the Role

As the senior engineering anchor for a data infrastructure and analytics platform, you will lead the architecture and operation of systems that turn diverse scientific data into a reliable, queryable knowledge base. You will shape the platform's technical direction, security, and growth while helping establish strong engineering practices.

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 organize heterogeneous data while maintaining provenance.
• Manage knowledge graph and vector search systems to support combined symbolic and semantic retrieval.
• Develop high-concurrency services in Go and Python, with controlled agent write access and isolated execution environments.
• Define security boundaries covering service authentication, tenant isolation, secrets, encryption, and zero-trust practices.
• Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability, and establish service-level objectives and developer workflows.
• Set engineering standards through architecture guidance, code reviews, mentorship, and team building.
• Partner with company leadership on team design, candidate interviews, 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 in Go, Python, FastAPI, TypeDB and TypeQL, Qdrant, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus.
• Experience guiding early-stage infrastructure toward greater reliability and engineering rigor; familiarity with computational biology, biotech data systems, or compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

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