Engineering Manager/Director, Seqera Labs
+Equity
Open source workflow orchestration
Open for applications
Open source workflow orchestration
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+Equity
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
- The ideal candidate will have a solid technical background and strong operational expertise, with a proven track record of creating/managing SaaS/IaaS products in production to ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability
- Additionally, you will have demonstrated expertise in building and leading product teams, including managing managers and driving organizational alignment
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or Director, leading software engineering teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment
- A track record of fostering innovation within teams and driving forward-thinking adoption of new technologies to solve complex challenges
- Strong technical background in cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, or data orchestration technologies
- Expertise in Compute technologies, Compute optimization, and distributed systems, with a strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, and experience in data storage and high-throughput file systems
- Experience with distributed computing and data-intensive workloads
- Experience in IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), Compute, or hardware as a service
- Expertise in building and running full-cycle software development projects, from concept to launch, with a strong understanding of operational requirements for high reliability SaaS solutions.
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to drive alignment across teams and influence senior stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience in building customer-focused product teams, working closely with product managers to develop solutions that deliver business value
- Flexibility to navigate the ambiguity of a startup, with the ability to adjust quickly to shifting priorities, new technologies, or evolving product-market fit
- Passion for solving complex technical challenges and enabling scientific advancements
Desirable
- Familiarity with Compute resell models or experience integrating compute resale strategies into product offerings
- Experience with HPC (High-Performance Computing) and optimizing compute-heavy workloads for performance and cost
- Background in Life Sciences, bioinformatics, or related domains
- Experience working on B2D (Business-to-Developer) services, understanding developer workflows and needs
- Background in services where security and compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, ISO) have been a key consideration
What the job involves
- We are seeking an exceptional Engineering Manager/Director to lead execution and delivery for one of Seqera's key product streams: Compute and Storage Optimization
- In this critical leadership role, you will shape the success of our platform by guiding world-class engineering teams and ensuring the seamless delivery of robust, scalable solutions
- As a strong technical leader, you will own the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle, applying your expertise to navigate complex challenges and ensure the effective, timely delivery of high-quality solutions
- You will take full ownership of the process, holding teams accountable for impactful results while fostering innovation and collaboration, and ensuring that your teams meet both departmental OKRs and broader business objectives
- You will bring a customer-centric mindset, collaborating closely with the product team to align engineering efforts with customer needs and business goals
- For Director-level candidates, this role extends to include strategic oversight, directing cross-functional activities within Seqera, and providing a clear vision for the department's success
- 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
- You will hire, lead, mentor, and develop Technical Leaders and Individual contributors, focusing on alignment across teams, and building a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
- Build product-focused teams that align engineering efforts with customer needs, delivering measurable value, while fostering an environment that encourages creative problem-solving and technological innovation
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Scientific Development to define and execute the product roadmap with a customer-centric focus. And then own the end-to-end software development lifecycle, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality, scalable products
- Ensure the smooth operation of SaaS products in production, with a focus on monitoring, reliability, scalability, and incident management
- Oversee engineering projects and manage timelines, prioritization, and resource allocation while adapting to the dynamic and fast-paced nature of a startup environment
- Drive best practices in engineering processes, including agile development, CI/CD, testing, and performance optimization
- Oversee hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, and onboarding for senior leaders
- For Director-level candidates:
- Provide strategic leadership, ensuring coherent cross-functional alignment and successful execution of departmental objectives at scale
- Take ownership of long-term strategic planning, balancing immediate project needs with future technological growth and innovation
- Partner with executive leadership to set and refine the company’s technical vision, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer outcomes
- Build and scale your organization
- Manage and influence stakeholder relationships, ensuring strong collaboration and clear communication across departments and leadership
- Oversee risk management and long-term technical roadmapping, ensuring the team is prepared to address both short-term challenges and future opportunities
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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Insights
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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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