Client Roles
ABOUT THE ROLE
Lead platform engineering for a scientific data infrastructure team building a foundational platform that turns diverse laboratory data into a unified, queryable knowledge base. You will own its architecture, security, and scale while establishing engineering practices and helping grow the team.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Set the architectural direction and build production ingestion pipelines, APIs, microservices, and storage layers that normalize heterogeneous data while preserving provenance.
- Operate knowledge graphs and vector search systems to support hybrid symbolic and semantic retrieval for agentic workloads.
- Build high-concurrency services in Go and Python, including controlled write boundaries and isolated execution environments.
- Design security controls for service authentication, tenant isolation, secrets, encryption, and zero-trust access.
- Own Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, SLOs, and internal developer workflows.
- Set engineering standards through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and team building.
- Partner with company leadership on engineering hiring and platform team growth.
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.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and modern CI/CD systems, alongside dedicated infrastructure engineering experience.
- Experience design