# Lead Platform Engineer at True Talent Solutions Partners

- Company: True Talent Solutions Partners
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: South San Francisco
- Level: Lead
- Discipline: Engineering
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $205K–235K
- Posted: 2026-11-14
- Skills: Linux, AI
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/6591557d-16ff-4042-9643-c9eb2721e85d

## Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Lead platform engineering for the compute, data, AI, and security infrastructure behind a biotechnology sequencing operation. You will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership to build reliable systems that support lab operations and scientific data processing.


WHAT YOU'LL DO

 - Own services that orchestrate lab devices, including robots, sequencers, and on-premises Linux servers, as well as the data ingestion pipeline.

 - Build cloud infrastructure and data pipelines to store, process, and deliver large volumes of sequencing data.

 - Design reliable orchestration and scheduling systems for large-scale bioinformatics workloads using queues, workflows, and state machines.

 - Build AI infrastructure and internal tools for agentic systems that monitor quality, coordinate logistics, and support adaptive bioinformatics analysis.

 - Lead cross-functional projects from problem definition through production, connecting architectural decisions to operational and business outcomes.

 - Mentor teammates and contribute directly to platform and backend engineering work.


WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

 - At least 5 years of experience in platform, backend, or infrastructure engineering, with a strong individual-contributor focus.

 - Strong AWS orchestration experience, including ECS, Batch, and Step Functions, plus Python backend development with FastAPI or Django.

 - Experience administering Linux servers and building production distributed systems, including task queues such as Celery or SQS.

 - Experience scaling systems in a fast-growing startup env

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