Senior Platform Engineer, Castor
Clinical trials platform
Job no longer available
Clinical trials platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To solve the world’s healthcare challenges with research data.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking to hire an additional senior platform engineer into our team. Ideally, you will have at least 5 years of experience with DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering, but we’re open to a broad range of skills and expertise
- We’ll definitely consider people who’ve been in application development roles as well, especially when you’ve touched a lot of deployment pipelines or monitoring/observability problems
- To give you an idea of skills we’re looking for, consider the following as guidelines:
- You understand DevOps and Site Reliability Principles, and are able to explain how these models enable efficient IT operations
- You have worked with one of the three major cloud providers. We operate on Azure, but we’ll provide training and certification opportunities if you’ve only used AWS or GCP in your career so far
- You have experience with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Nomad, and development tooling within this area
- You have an understanding of Linux systems (we run on Ubuntu, but experience on any other distribution qualifies for us) and networking principles
- You have some experience building CLI applications or web-based projects, preferably in Go or Python
- You have experience with server and application performance monitoring. Bonus points if you’ve operated a time-series database like Prometheus, dabbled with something like OpenTelemetry
- You are able to explain the benefits and downsides of different system/cloud architectures in order to help development teams make the right choice for their applications
What the job involves
- As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be joining the team which supports Castor’s developers in getting their services running in production in a secure and reliable manner
- After successfully completing a journey into public cloud throughout 2021-2022, our team is now helping development teams leverage cloud technologies and SaaS options in their products
- Over the past year we have set up a Kubernetes platform for new services, and helped other teams with the adoption of Azure Functions for a change data capture system
- Helping design and onboard services to these technologies would be a key part of your role, taking into account the stringent security requirements of the healthcare domain
- Next to these new developments, your day to day work will also include typical maintenance work necessary to “keep the lights on”
- We strive to find a balance between minimizing toil and being pragmatic which means not everything is perfectly automated, but we’re certainly biased towards avoiding manual and repetitive work
- Our team doesn’t operate many in-house services directly, but when it comes to custom-built scripts for “glue code”, we have a preference for Go or Python
- As part of this role, you'll be expected to take some ownership over this internal tooling within our team
- And finally, you should also expect our developers to come to you needing help debugging application issues from time to time, which is a good opportunity to build bridges with the other teams
Our take
Castor’s cloud-based clinical data management platform allows clinical trials to be carried out faster and in a more decentralised and patient-focused manner. Some of the biggest roadblocks to successful clinical trials are the length of time they can take, a lack of diversity in participants, and a simple shortage of trial subjects. Castor’s tech allows researchers to overcome these obstacles by more easily capturing and integrating data.
Castor, along with other med tech startups like Thread and Florence garnered praise during 2020 as a lot of medical research transitioned to virtual. In a clinical trials market that’s worth over $40 billion worldwide and still growing, the fact that Castor counts the WHO in its customer base is encouraging.
Backed by Eight Roads Ventures and F-Prime Capital, Castor is aiming to use its funding round to continue product development, data gathering, and increase its manpower, with a view to expanding operations beyond the US and into Asia.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2021
$45m
SERIES B
Aug 2020
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $64.5m
Company benefits
- Unlimited annual leave, plus national holidays per location. Minimum of 25 PTO days per year to be taken.
- Access to Calm App
- Quarterly downtime weeks
- Bi-weekly virtual meditation sessions
- Virtual company events
- Sleeping courses
- A ‘wellbeing boost slack channel
- Access to a company coach
- A 24/7 accessible ‘getting things done’ workshop
- An annual €750 credit allowance in Learnerbly
- An annual €750 (or the currency equivalent) to spend on professional development
- Quarterly alignment cycle promoting open feedback through Leapsome
- Access to Appical which supports an amazing remote onboarding journey
- Ensuring you have the best possible remote working setup
- Work remotely or from a Castor office location near you
- A focus on agile and flexible working
- A Mac or Dell laptop
- Personal IT support and setup on your first day
- Access to professional tools including G-Drive, Zoom, Miro, Slack, Confluence, ProductBoard, Figma, Jira, and Asana
- Internal communication and meeting guidelines to support asynchronous communication
Company HQ
Hudson Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Derk Arts
(Founder & CEO)Has over fifteen years of experience in medicine, research and technology.
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