# 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: DevOps & SRE
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $205K–235K
- Posted: 2026-11-13
- Skills: Linux, bioinformatics
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/1a134e6b-22d3-4676-aadc-40f29d61c45e

## Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Lead platform engineering for the compute, data, AI, and security infrastructure behind a biotechnology sequencing operation. You will work across software and scientific teams to build reliable systems that support lab operations and large-scale bioinformatics.


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 systems for orchestrating bioinformatics tasks, including queues, workflow orchestration, and scheduling.

 - Develop infrastructure and internal tools for AI agents that monitor operational quality, coordinate logistics, and support adaptive bioinformatics analysis.

 - Lead cross-functional projects from problem definition through production, while contributing hands-on to implementation.


WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

 - At least 5 years of platform, backend, or infrastructure engineering experience, including ownership of production systems at a scaling startup.

 - Strong AWS orchestration experience with ECS, Batch, or Step Functions, plus Python backend development using frameworks such as FastAPI or Django.

 - Experience designing reliable distributed systems, including queues, workflow orchestration, and state machines, and operating Linux servers and task queues such as Celery or SQS.

 - Experience leading or mentoring engineers, or a strong individual-contributor track record, with hands-on work making up a

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