data infrastructure · analytics platform
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 s