Senior Software Engineer

Role Overview

Join Freenome as a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team. You will build and operate a multi-tenant platform that enables scientific innovation and data intelligence, partnering with engineers, scientists, product managers, and business teams.

Key Missions

• Lead projects end to end and contribute to platform initiatives supporting R&D, operational excellence, and business intelligence analytics.
• Design and ship components of a new platform architecture enabling:
  • Multi-tenancy
  • Fine-grained data governance
  • Workload isolation
  • Scalability
• Collaborate via system design, code reviews, and pairing, and help foster a culture of accountability, learning, and psychological safety.

Responsibilities / Environment

• Operate and optimize large Kubernetes clusters (single or multi-cluster) with thousands of nodes.
• Ensure reliability with a pragmatic approach to observability, performance tuning, and operational excellence.
• Work in an “Everything as Code” environment covering infrastructure, policies, and data.
• Support research, data science, and AI/ML teams.

Requirements

• 6+ years building and operating highly reliable production software systems, preferably in platform engineering.
• Operational experience managing and optimizing Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong Linux fundamentals (networking and containerization).
• Proficiency with Python and experience with one or more additional high-level languages.
• Comfort with cross-functional collaboration and tradeoffs.
• Experience operating cloud services, storage, and compute using IaC with a major cloud provider (preferably Azure or GCP).
• Proven communication and documentation skills.
• Experience operating production systems in Microsoft Azure.
• Open-source contribution and maintenance experience.

Nice-to-haves / Domain & Platform

• Flyte or other modern workflow orchestrators.
• Columnar data processing and open lakehouse technologies / table formats.