Clera
Mid-Level Platform Engineer, Biotech
- Compensation
- $180K–$240K / yr
- From job posting
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- Arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14 October 2026 (2 days ago)
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About this role
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join the platform and data engineering team at an AI-focused biotech startup, building and operating infrastructure for sensitive clinical and biomedical data. Your work will help scientists and machine learning engineers access reliable, model-ready datasets and deploy data and models into partner environments.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build and maintain cloud data infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, object storage, lakehouse layouts, catalogs, lineage, versioning, and data access systems.
- Design and operate data warehouses and lifecycle processes for clinical records, molecular features, metadata, and versioned dataset releases.
- Develop reproducible bioinformatics workflows for omics data, using workflow managers such as Nextflow and containerized cloud compute.
- Build data quality checks, biological validation, and visualizations that help teams identify issues throughout processing.
- Create reliable, versioned interfaces for preparing model-training datasets and delivering data alongside models to partner environments.
- Own infrastructure reliability, observability, security, compliance controls, and cost optimization, including CI/CD and workload orchestration.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Two to five years building data infrastructure and production pipelines, with experience in biotech, diagnostics, biobanking, or health data involving sensitive or biological information.
- Production experience building and operating Kubernetes clusters, writing infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar tools, and designing CI/CD and deployment systems.
- Strong production programming skills in Python and/or Go, with clean, tested, well-documented code and effective code review practices.
- Experience with a major cloud provider, preferably AWS, distributed job orchestration, and large-scale data pipelines.
- Familiarity with lakehouse and warehouse design, data catalogs, Docker, and workflow managers such as Nextflow.
- Experience with GPU or machine learning infrastructure, distributed training, omics workflows, or clinical data standards such as OMOP and FHIR is valuable.
- Knowledge of controls and audit practices for HIPAA, GDPR, or SOC 2 is beneficial; R or SQL experience is also useful.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Salary range: $180,000 to $240,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
LOCATION
Hybrid role based in San Francisco, California.
Work location
- San Francisco, CA, US
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Published 14 October 2026, last checked yesterday. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.