Senior / Staff Software Engineer, BioRender
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Scientific diagram creator
Job no longer available
Scientific diagram creator
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover and communicate science.
Role
Who you are
- You have experience working in a fast-paced, competitive environment and have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems, and find win/win solutions
- You are passionate about architecting and building scalable platform solutions
- You are a results-oriented individual who takes initiative and has a strong bias for action
- You’re a creative thinker who finds efficient and simple solutions and evangelizes best practices
- You have effective communication skills, a sense of ownership and drive to consistently improve yourself and others
- You’re a selfless team player who sees the big picture and puts common goals at the forefront of solutioning and decision-making
- 10-12+ years of experience in the software/DevOps/SRE realm
- Strong programming skills in 2 or more of these languages: javascript, typescript, python, Go
- Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems at scale
- Database Performance Monitoring and best practices
- Comfortable innovating and establishing new practices, processes, and tooling
- Strong analytical skills, system design, and architecture for cloud applications
- CI/CD, configuration management, monitoring, and automation expertise
- Advanced knowledge of observability and best practices (ELK, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Deployment and orchestration via AWS ECS, k8s, CloudRun etc
- Understanding of Linux, virtualization, networking, VPCs, firewalls, security groups
- Hands-on knowledge of AWS and resources provisioning via CLI/API/IaC
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- As our Sr/Staff SRE in the Platform Engineering team, you'll get in on the ground floor and play a pivotal role in developing and shaping a resilient, high-performant, and secure platform for BioRender's engineering prowess
- Aligned with our company mission to accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover, and communicate science, your objective is to design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems that our customers rely on
- Harnessing the power of automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code, you'll seamlessly integrate and deploy our applications into the cloud while establishing observability enhanced with actionable alerts and automation to detect performance bottlenecks
- You'll adeptly address production issues, promptly restore services, and lead post-mortems to continually enhance our engineering excellence, thereby fulfilling our company's vision to be the go-to trusted place where science is communicated
- Elevate and Innovate: Enhance platform resilience by constantly seeking ways to improve the reliability, scalability and release efficiency of the platform
- Develop Robust Observability and Monitoring Solutions: Define, build, deploy, maintain, and extend advanced observability and monitoring tools to bolster system reliability and availability
- Define and Monitor Performance Metrics: Play a key role in formulating and tracking Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to establish precise benchmarks for system performance
- Solve Complex Issues and Conduct Root Cause Analysis: Swiftly respond to escalated incidents, troubleshoot intricate system and application problems, and conduct thorough root cause analyses to implement corrective measures
- Thought Leadership and Innovation: stay up to date with the latest industry trends and emerging technologies and iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of development and deliverables
- Architect Scalable and Reliable Systems: Lead in the design and architecture of scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant systems that uphold performance and reliability standards
- Mentorship and Evangelism: Champion the adoption of new technologies, disseminate best practices, and advocate for architectural patterns. Mentor and guide fellow engineers in the organization
Our take
One of the best ways for science students and experts to communicate ideas is through diagrams, but not everyone has the illustration skills to pull this off. Whilst computer graphics can be used instead of manually drawing scientific imagery, the lack of a dedicated resource for such images prevents diagrams from being consistent and professional.
Biorender hosts thousands of pre-made icons and templates to be used in the creation of diagrams across over 30 different life science fields. The resources follow consistent quality standards and can be dragged and dropped within the platform to create scientific diagrams, to be used by students, teachers, labs, and educational institutions.
Other visual libraries that include scientific icons and templates exist for the creation of diagrams, but Biorender has presented a novel idea with its exhaustive library, offering to produce missing icons on demand within 48 hours. The entire library is free to use alongside basic design features by individuals for educational purposes, with more advanced features and paid licenses being available for labs and institutions. Its success at visualising complex diagrams and information has helped Biorender achieve several rounds of substantial funding.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
56% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$17.1m
SERIES A
Jan 2018
$0.1m
SEED
Total funding: $17.3m
Company benefits
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive health and dental benefits for you and your family from your first day, including an EAP, HSA, and extended mental health benefits.
- Recharge Long Weekends: In addition to vacation days, our 3 annual BioRender Recharge long weekends offer you a chance to unplug and reset!
- Stock Options: Our employees are also part-owners of BioRender and reap the benefits of their shared hard work.
- Parental Leave Benefits: To help your growing family while you're away from work, we offer a salary top up and even a new baby bonus!
- PAW Perks: Keep your furry family members healthy with our Pet & Animal Wellness veterinary bill reimbursement program.
- Learn and Grow: We'll support your professional growth through regular goal-setting, mentorship, and an annual professional development budget for courses and conferences.
- Team Events: Virtual lunch and learns, show & tells, games, and happy hours help us to stay connected in a remote-first environment.
- In-person Hackathons: Twice per year, we bring our whole team together in Toronto for a week of innovative team work, and cap it off with a company social!
- Work from Anywhere: Our team members have the flexibility to work from another country for up to 3 months per year.
- Flexible Time Off: Our "Flexible Vacation" policy gives you the flexibility to take time off when you need it, so you can unplug, recharge, and come back refreshed.
Company HQ
Wellington Place, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Shiz Aoki
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Lead Science Illustrator for National Geographic. Also Founder and Medical Illustrator for Anatomize Studios Inc.
Katya Shteyn
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as Software Engineer for Dropbox and as a Software Engineering Intern for Google.
Ryan Marien
(Co-Founder)Co-Founder of SnapSaves. Also Founded Buytopia.ca.
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