Staff Software Engineer, Freenome

• B.S. or M.S. in computer science or a related technical field, or comparable experience
• 8+ years of experience with production infrastructure, automation, and monitoring with a track record of building and deploying infrastructure as part of a high-functioning team
• Multi-public cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Deep knowledge and proven working experience in managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure services, networking, security
• Proven experience in leveraging automation tools and infrastructure-as-code techniques as a key strategy for managing infrastructure
• Production deployment automation tools, such as Terraform or Pulumi
• Proven experience implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
• Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems
• Software design and development expertise, especially in Python
• Practical knowledge of Linux internals
• A systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills

Desirable

• Freenome is looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build a cloud-native machine learning platform for the world’s largest multi-analyte cancer genomics dataset
• As an engineering-forward biotech company, we apply modern engineering practices to build reliable, maintainable, scalable, and secure production systems for our clinical lab and Computational and Molecular Research Scientists
• Our infrastructure team is a small group where you will help set the culture and build the systems that allow us to move fast without breaking things
• This is an opportunity to do meaningful engineering work that will directly save lives
• The role reports to Director, Cloud Infrastructure
• Provide direct, strategic and tactical leadership to your department
• Provide leadership in developing new strategies, methodologies, and solutions to improve execution towards department- and company-level objectives
• Partner with our QA Department to ensure the highest level of regulatory compliance with recognized quality best practice
• Translate business segment strategy into cross-functional plans and guide plan execution
• Accountable for the performance and results of your department (Monitoring performance and initiating action to strengthen results)
• Proactively communicate cross-functionally with key stakeholders to adapt as needed through reprioritization and alignment
• Ensure budgets, resourcing and timelines meet company requirements
• Empowers department to take calculated risks and make mistakes as a team but collectively learn from these experiences, ensuring institutional knowledge is retained and applied in the future
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, using trial and error to thoughtfully iterate towards the best solution balancing time and resource constraints
• Anticipate factors that could cause issues that have departmental or cross-functional impact and formulates preventive strategies
• Proactively requests feedback from others and are open to continuous feedback
• Consistently delivers actionable and timely feedback to people at all levels in a way that strengthens relationships and enables functional initiatives to advance more quickly
• Provide consistent communications to key functional and cross-functional stakeholders on progress and updates
• Guides department in effective communication and collaboration, avoiding triangulation or churn and fostering direct communication
• Adapts communications to audience requirements to optimize understanding and results, adapting to diverse communication styles
• Build and maintain strong, healthy relationships with cross-functional peers
• Provide representation for your department to executive leadership through reporting, presentations and Quarterly Business Review type meetings
• Lead by example, integrate and reinforce our Values and Principles as much as possible
• Coaches and provides guidance to direct reports to foster our Values and Principles across departments
• Recognizes Values and Principles gaps in your department on an ongoing basis and implement solutions and creates opportunities to grow in those areas
• Actively identifies internal transfer and growth opportunities, empowering team members to pursue them
• Perform quarterly talent reviews
• Addresses performance issues with direct, constructive and actionable feedback
• Provides inspiration and leads department towards the company mission, vision, and culture
• Gives direction and organizational clarity in roles and responsibilities to execute on department and company OKRs more effectively
• Effectively cascades organizational strategy and contributes to the development of organizational procedures
• Actively involved in recruitment, attracting and retaining top talent to build high performing teams

Total funding: $1.1bn

Freenome is a biotechnology company offering a biological analysis platform that uses molecular biology and machine learning to detect cancer with a routine blood draw. The platform trains on thousands of cancer-positive blood samples to recognise disease-associated patterns and help detect early-stage cancer, allowing clinicians to optimise treatments.