Lead Platform Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners · San Francisco · onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join a data infrastructure and analytics team as its senior engineering anchor. You will shape and scale a foundational platform that brings complex scientific data together for use by scientists and AI agents.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own the platform architecture, delivery, security posture, and scaling strategy.
- Build and operate ingestion pipelines, APIs, microservices, and storage systems that normalize scientific data while preserving provenance.
- Manage knowledge graphs and vector search to support hybrid symbolic and semantic 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, encryption, and zero-trust access.
- Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability, and establish SLOs and developer workflows.
- Set engineering standards through architecture guidance, code reviews, and mentorship, while helping grow the platform team.
- Partner with company leaders on engineering team design and recruiting.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Three to seven years of platform or infrastructure engineering experience, with a track record building production backend infrastructure, data platforms, or distributed systems.
- Dedicated infrastructure engineering experience in addition to software engineering.
- Strong proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and modern CI/CD systems.
- Experience designing ETL or ELT pipelines for complex, unstructured enterprise or scientific data.
- Experience with Go, Python, FastAPI, TypeDB/TypeQL, Qdrant, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus.
- Experience with computational biology, biotech data systems, or compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 is a plus.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $220,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available.
LOCATION
On-site, five days per week in San Francisco, California. Relocation assistance is available.