Staff Software Engineer, Ganymede

• 8+ years of hands-on experience working in a backend or infrastructure role
• Lead backend and infrastructure development for critical platform components—from initial design to production rollout
• Architect, build, and operate cloud-native systems using Terraform, Helm/Kubernetes, GCP services (Pub/Sub, Workflows), APIs, and event-driven pipelines
• Demonstrated staff-level technical leadership
• Successfully taking net-new projects from zero to one as the primary technical leader
• Ability to construct and sell a vision for projects across both engineering and commercial considerations
• Mentorship of juniors on these projects improve their technical and design contributions
• Experience collaborating with and leading cross-functional stakeholders such as product or design
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our backend stack through profiling, optimization, and resilient infrastructure patterns
• Build leverage through automation - CI/CD improvements, repeatable environments, and end-to-end testing frameworks
• Excellent collaboration skills in both written and verbal forms, as well as via clear, cleanly written code
• Genuine desire to make an impact generally, and interest in advancing the health and welfare of people
• Kindness, empathy, and low ego

Desirable

• As a staff software engineer focused on our backend and infrastructure, you'll drive the build of the Ganymede product with modern cloud infrastructure, AI tooling, and rich scientific data management products; architect our technical strategy; and leave your mark on the company, as well as the biotech industry as a whole
• Engineering work will span the stack, with a heavy focus on backend/infra, and maybe some direct work with biotech data too! (No experience needed in hardware or science - just a willingness to learn what it takes in a rapidly evolving startup environment.)
• You’ll wear many hats and may also delve into security, dev tools, release engineering, and more
• Day-to-day work will be a combination of scrappy implementation to maintain our pace, and careful strategic planning to avoid and reduce tech debt in the future
• You'll interface with our founders and customers as we prioritize our roadmap and scope out the exact details of our releases. In a technical environment like Ganymede, engineering and product are inseparable
• You'll also be a key determinant of our culture, and will help us grow and set norms for the business as we scale