Senior Software Engineer, Freenome
$131.3-201k
Eligible to receive pre-IPO equity and cash bonuses
Biological analysis platform for cancer
Job no longer available
Biological analysis platform for cancer
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$131.3-201k
Eligible to receive pre-IPO equity and cash bonuses
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create tools that empower everyone to prevent, detect, and treat their disease.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5 years of experience as a software engineer shipping highly reliable production systems, preferably as member of platform and backend teams
- Proficiency with Python and familiarity with one or more other high-level programming languages
- Experience managing cloud native services, storage and compute infrastructure on one or more public cloud providers, including GCP or Azure
- Experience with Docker and operating container orchestrator frameworks, preferably Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience managing CI/CD pipelines with Infrastructure as Code
- Experience driving performance, efficiency and usability improvements with proactive attitude to monitoring, debugging and relentless optimization
- Strong communication and documentation skills, and high empathy for users
- Ability to thrive in an environment where cross-functional collaboration, communication and compromise are part of your day-to-day work
- BS or higher in computer science or a related technical field, or comparable experience
Desirable
- Collaborating with research engineers, scientists, AI teams
- Terraform, Pulumi or other Infrastructure as Code tools
- Profiling and debugging at system level
- Observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack
- Flyte or other modern workflow orchestrators like Metaflow, Argo Workflows
- Distributed computing frameworks and design patterns
- Apache Iceberg or other data lake technologies like DeltaLake, Apache Hudi
What the job involves
- At Freenome, we are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to scale the next generation Research Platform that accelerates our mission to develop accessible solutions to combat cancer
- You will closely partner with Product Managers and other infrastructure and product software engineers to drive innovation, contributing to the success of Freenome as a whole
- In this role you will be at the core of a world-class interdisciplinary group including Research engineers, ML Scientists, Bioinformaticists, Computational Biologists, Biostatisticians
- The role reports to our engineering management team. This role will be a remote position based anywhere in the US
- Develop, scale and provide support on the computing and data platforms that power all Freenome’s research
- Understand user needs across a wide range of engineering and scientific disciplines, and create simple solutions to enhance their productivity
- Build tools and abstractions to orchestrate and track distributed workflows, supporting petabyte-scale data pipelines and ML model development
- Optimize our Kubernetes clusters for high-throughput batch processing, e.g. by scouting, deploying and tuning alternative schedulers and policy engines. We use Apache Yunikorn and Kyverno
- Collaborate with team mates through system design, code review and pairing
- Provide technical support and pair as needed with our scientific partners
- Contribute to develop our Data Lakehouse and other platform components of a modern data architecture
- Champion platform engineering best practices and a data as a product culture at Freenome
Our take
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.
The company specialises in advanced computational biology, using machine learning to detect patterns among billions of circulating cell-free biomarkers. Freenome continues to focus on the development of its colorectal cancer test, potentially helping the 45 million people not currently up-to-date on colorectal cancer screening guidelines in the United States.
Following its 2022 funding round, the company surpassed the $1 billion funding mark. Freenome is set to accelerate the development of its platform, testing for additional cancers and furthering its blood test detection technology. It's also forming partnerships for R&D purposes, joining forces with health firms such as Geisinger to provide real-world data that could help it detect multiple cancers.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2025
$75m
LATE VC
Feb 2024
$254m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company HQ
The East Side, South San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Riley Ennis
(Co-Founder)Studied at Yale, Johns Hopkins and Dartmouth. Was a Thiel Fellow and co-founded Immudicon and Oncolinx.
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