Platform Engineer, Lab Infrastructure and DevSecOps (Genomics)

A fast-growing genomics sequencing company needs a platform engineer to architect and protect the infrastructure behind its laboratories. The job mixes real on-premises work with a sizeable cloud footprint, and it suits a hands-on builder who would rather design systems than simply keep them running.

What you’ll own

Plan and expand lab networking plus on-site storage and GPU compute that handle very large volumes of sequencing data

Build the bespoke lab network from the ground up using GitHub Actions, Terraform and Ansible, then pass daily operation to an IT engineer through runbooks

Lead security engineering: firewalls, protection for the robotic fleet, penetration and red-team testing of web systems (AI agents included), vulnerability management and incident response

Design and operate secure AWS environments covering networking, identity and containers, linked back to the physical labs

Make it quicker to bring new laboratories online as the company expands

Background we want

Seven years or more working in security, systems, infrastructure or platform engineering, with DevSecOps and on-premises exposure

Experience in physical settings where uptime counted, such as data centers, factories, laboratories, robotics or other hardware-heavy companies; a purely SaaS history falls short

Strong AWS and infrastructure-as-code skills, plus Python and Bash

Deep networking knowledge across VLANs, VPNs, firewalls and routing, including networks you designed yourself; pfSense or MikroTik strongly preferred

Most of your career at early- to mid-stage startups, ideally the earliest person in your discipline

Hybrid in the San Francisco Bay Area. Work visas are not supported for this role.