Lead Platform Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 14, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 14, 2026.
About the Role
Join the platform engineering team at a data infrastructure company building tools that turn fragmented laboratory data into a unified, queryable resource for scientists and AI systems. As the senior engineering anchor, you will shape the architecture, security, and scale of this foundational platform.
What You'll Do
Own the platform's architecture, execution, security posture, and scaling strategy.
Build and maintain production ingestion pipelines, APIs, microservices, and storage layers that normalize diverse scientific data while preserving provenance.
Manage knowledge graphs and vector search systems to support combined semantic and structured retrieval.
Develop high-concurrency services in Go and Python, including controlled agent write boundaries and isolated execution environments.
Design security controls for service authentication, tenant isolation, secrets management, encryption, and zero-trust access.
Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability, and establish service-level objectives and internal developer workflows.
Set engineering standards, review code, mentor teammates, and help grow the platform engineering team.
Partner with company leadership on team design, interviewing, and recruiting as the organization scales.
What We're Looking For
At least 5 years of platform or infrastructure engineering experience, with a track record building and operating production backend infrastructure, data platforms, or distributed systems.
Strong experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and modern CI/CD systems.
Experience owning ingestion for messy, multi-source data, including schema harmonization and entity resolution.
Proficiency with Go and Python or FastAPI, plus experience with knowledge graphs or vector search technologies.
Experience designing production security boundaries and establishing engineering practices, observability, and service-level objectives.
Dedicated infrastructure engineering experience in addition to software engineering; biotech data systems, computational biology, and SOC 2 or similar compliance experience are a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary range: $220,000 to $300,000 annually. Equity is not specified. Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week. Relocation assistance is available.