Head of Infrastructure Engineering, Seqera Labs
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Open source workflow orchestration
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Open source workflow orchestration
101-200 employees
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101-200 employees
Company mission
To deliver the most seamless experience for data pipelines at scale, with a focus on the life sciences.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience leading technical operations teams, including DevOps, Infrastructure, or Security functions, in a SaaS or IaaS environment
- Strong technical expertise in cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and infrastructure optimization
- Experience with distributed computing, optimizing computationally complex workloads, and managing high-availability systems at scale
- Proven track record of managing large-scale infrastructure and ensuring operational reliability
- Experience working on B2D (Business-to-Developer) services, understanding developer workflows and needs
- Deep understanding of security, compliance, and risk management in technical operations
- Experience in services where compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, ISO) has been a key consideration
- Expertise in implementing robust quality management processes aligned with industry standards for research and healthcare environments
- Understanding of HIPAA, GDPR, and other privacy regulations relevant to handling sensitive health and research data
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive alignment across teams
Desirable
- Experience supporting GxP-compliant systems and ensuring adherence to regulatory standards such as 21 CFR Part 11, Annex 11, or equivalent
- Familiarity with Compute resell models or experience integrating compute resale strategies into technical operations
- Experience with HPC (High-Performance Computing) and optimizing compute-heavy workloads
- Familiarity with deploying and managing infrastructure to support regulated use cases in biotech and life sciences
- Prior experience collaborating with regulatory, quality assurance, and compliance teams to support audits or inspections
- Knowledge of bioinformatics workflows, high-performance computing (HPC), or tools commonly used in biotech research
- A track record of enabling secure, scalable platforms for biotech applications such as clinical trials, genomic data processing, or drug discovery
What the job involves
- Seqera is seeking a visionary Head of Infrastructure Engineering to lead our Infrastructure, Software Deployment, Release Management, Engineering Productivity, and Security initiatives
- In this critical role, you will ensure the seamless operation, scalability, and security of Seqera’s platform and internal systems
- You will build and lead high-performing teams, drive operational excellence, and implement best practices for deployment, monitoring, and incident response
- Your responsibilities include managing cloud services, ensuring system reliability and security, enhancing engineering efficiency, and aligning infrastructure with business objectives
- Expertise in cloud infrastructure, team leadership, and healthcare compliance is essential
- As a key partner to leadership, you will shape the vision for technical operations and align it with Seqera’s broader business and product goals
- Your contributions will directly support our mission to deliver reliable, secure solutions for research and healthcare customers
- Flexibility is essential, as our fast-paced startup environment demands adaptability to evolving priorities, scaling teams, and advancing technologies while staying aligned with changing customer and market needs
- Build and lead the Infrastructure, Release Management, Engineering Productivity, and Security-focused organization by hiring, mentoring, and developing top talent
- Ensure the smooth operation of Seqera’s SaaS and IaaS products in production, and establish operational excellence through observability, scalability, and incident management
- Oversee cloud and on-premises release processes, ensuring seamless and reliable software deployment
- Drive technical solutions that improve system reliability, scalability, and performance, aligning operational excellence with company objectives
- Define and execute a roadmap for infrastructure and technical operations that supports current and future business needs
- Establish and enforce best practices in security and compliance, ensuring adherence to standards like GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO
- Own the strategy for cloud infrastructure cost management and optimization
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering, and Customer Success, to align operational goals with broader company objectives
- Lead incident response efforts, ensuring effective root-cause analysis and implementing preventive measures
- Champion automation, CI/CD, and DevOps best practices to streamline processes and improve operational efficiency
- Manage and optimize distributed computing environments and computationally complex workloads
- Build and scale robust systems to support Seqera’s growth while maintaining a customer-focused mindset
Our take
Commercial DNA sequencing and advances in biometrics have led to an explosion in biological data, which is likely to prove critical in tackling the major problems facing the life sciences. The problem is, the data is so vast in quantity and diverse in type that analysing it and managing it can prove prohibitively expensive. This is where data orchestration and workflow platform Seqera Labs comes into its own.
Seqera is focused predominantly on facilitating big data analysis and management in the life sciences, and it has gotten impressive traction. Its Nextflow product, a distributed data analysis solution, has been used by over 10,000 organizations. This has included teams working on COVID sequencing, and on cancers.
What's so valuable about its offering is that it can be used by people who understand the data without the need for external teams, which has led to it becoming an industry standard. Seqera has been funded generously, and acquired AI bioinformatics company TinyBio, empowering it to play a pivotal role in key life-sciences developments going forward.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2022
$22.9m
SERIES A
Sep 2021
$5.5m
SEED
Total funding: $28.6m
Company benefits
- Awesome international working environment
- Passionate & talented team
- Continuous skills development
- Mental health app access
- Team retreats and bonding activities
Company values
- Innovation and curiosity - We see the universe as a place of infinite possibilities. Our curiosity is stimulated by the physical world. We have never finished learning and are always seeking to improve our knowledge and ourselves
- Transparency and openness - We are open about as many things as possible. Transparency creates awareness. It allows us to recruit people that care about our values, gets us faster feedback, and makes it easier to collaborate
- Commitment to craft - We are professionals with a passion for our work. We strive towards excellence. Incredible talent and the right tools combined with an environment that fosters collaboration and clear accountability, create an outsized impact
- Driven by impact - We wake up every day to make a better world. By empowering grass-roots scientists and global institutions, we leverage our skills and reach to make the biggest impact possible
- Do the right thing - We do what is best for the greater good of the organization while striving towards our mission. We don't make decisions based on personal needs, personal popularity, or that enforce our personal beliefs
Company HQ
El Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
Articles
Leadership
Paolo Di Tommaso
(Co-Founder & CTO)A computer scientist with broad experience as a software engineer and software architect in life science and healthcare applications.
Evan Floden
(Co-Founder & CEO)A Biomedicine PhD graduate, with broad experience across biomedicine and computing, including work as the Senior Bioinformatician at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation.
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