Principal Platform Architect
Company: Karius Inc
Location: Redwood City
Posted on: October 23, 2024
Job Description:
About KariusKarius is a venture-backed life science startup that
is transforming the way pathogens and other microbes are observed
throughout the body. By unlocking the information present in
microbial cell-free DNA, we're helping doctors quickly solve their
most challenging cases, providing industry partners with access to
the microbial landscape to accelerate biomarker discovery and
clinical trials, discover novel microbes, to ultimately reduce
patient suffering worldwide.Position SummaryResearch, development,
and operation of Karius's novel technologies heavily depend on the
underlying computing and data infrastructure, software system
architecture, and various research and engineering tools (aka,
Karius R&D/Ops platform or simply "Platform"). In this critical
engineering role, you will collaborate closely with the engineering
and science leadership to set the strategic direction for the
technology behind this Platform. Then, develop and drive a
technology roadmap to develop and operate an extensible, reliable,
secure, and scalable Platform.Why Should You Join Us?Karius aims to
conquer infectious diseases through innovations around genomic
sequencing and machine learning. The company's platform is already
delivering unprecedented insights into the microbial landscape,
providing clinicians with a comprehensive test capable of
identifying more than a thousand pathogens directly from blood, and
helping industry accelerate the development of therapeutic
solutions. The Karius test we provide today is one of the most
advanced solutions available to physicians who aim to deliver
better care to many otherwise ineffectively treated patients. Our
test is the result of some incredible work done by our scientists,
statisticians, engineers, and physicians, all driven by the same
mission. You, as part of the Karius team, will be able to see how
directly your work has a life-changing impact on people, and at
scale.Reports To: Vice President, EngineeringLocation: Redwood
City, CA or HybridPrimary Responsibilities
- Leading architectural projects from concept to completion,
ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget and
quality/regulatory requirements.
- Developing architectural blueprints, frameworks, and guidelines
for Platform development and operation.
- Ensuring the architecture meets technical and business
requirements including security, performance, interoperability, and
scalability.
- Staying current with industry trends and emerging technologies
to ensure the Platform leverages the best technologies that fit the
needs.
- Articulating and presenting complex ideas clearly and
effectively to technical and business audiences.
- Developing, documenting, and organizing artifacts such as
strategy, technical proposals and designs, and risk
assessments.
- Ensuring Karius's R&D and engineering staff have the proper
infrastructure, tools, and processes to be productive.
- Ensuring the Karius Platform is cloud vendor agnostic, can be
provisioned globally using a blueprint as code, and meets regional
privacy and security rules and regulations.
- Enable the Platform to be provisioned for non-Karius
laboratories, enabling them to operate Karius products.What's Fun
About the Job?Karius is operating at the edge of what is now known
to be possible in infectious disease diagnostics. With that, comes
a wave of new and incredible challenges and opportunities. To
deliver on that value, you will be tapping into some of the most
advanced technologies, architecting and innovating where the
current solutions simply don't suffice. You will get to see how
much your work really matters.Travel: Travel required up to
10%.Physical RequirementsSubject to extended sitting and standing
periods, vision to monitor, and moderate noise levels. Work is
performed in an office environment.Position Requirements
- Primarily, show us you have successfully built and operated
several complex, high-quality, regulated, reliable, and scalable
R&D and engineering cloud-native platforms.
- Convince us that you have the technical, people, and
organizational skills to understand and translate complex business
and technical requirements into a one-of-a-kind platform that
becomes a sustaining competitive advantage for Karius.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,
Physics, Statistics, Biomedical Engineering, Genetics, or a related
engineering or science field. Ph.D. in these fields is a big
plus.
- 15+ years of engineering experience, 10 of which in leading the
development and operation of distributed software systems and
cloud-native platforms.
- Proficient in infrastructure-as-code design and tools such as
Terraform.
- Deep knowledge and experience in design patterns,
implementation, testing, and failure management of distributed
systems and microservices.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native software development and
operations approach; primarily using tools and technologies such as
Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud services to run software services and
data analytics jobs.
- Proficient in industry security standards such as NIST CSF/SSDF
with hands-on experience implementing and monitoring cloud security
controls.
- Experience with various code flow and DevOps approaches such as
gitOps.
- Lead architectural projects from concept to completion,
ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget and
quality/regulatory requirements.
- Develop architectural blueprints, frameworks, and guidelines
for Platform development and operation.
- Ensure the architecture meets technical and business
requirements including security, performance, interoperability, and
scalability.
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to
ensure the Platform leverages the best technologies that fit the
needs.
- Track record of building mutual trust, exerting
cross-functional indirect influence, and leading change.
- Articulate and present complex ideas clearly and effectively to
technical and business audiences.
- Develop, document, and organize artifacts such as strategy,
technical proposals and designs, and risk assessments.
- Experience in healthcare and life sciences especially
developing medical devices is a big plus.Personal QualificationsWe
want to add a humble, curious, and collaborative member to our
team. At the Karius engineering team, we highly value deep domain
expertise, drive for innovation, desire to collaborate, being open
to learning and unlearning, and passion for solving hard problems
with a meaningful impact on the world. A sense of ownership and
personal/group accountability allows us to be a productive and
high-performing team. If you share our vision we would like to have
you on board.DisclaimerThe above job description is intended to
describe the general nature and level of work being performed by
individuals assigned to this position. It is not intended to be an
exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills
required. Responsibilities and duties may change or be adjusted to
meet the needs of the company, and additional duties may be
assigned as necessary. The job description is subject to change at
any time at the discretion of Karius.At Karius, we value a diverse
and inclusive workplace and provide equal employment opportunity
for all applicants and employees and are committed to honor and
invest in the full diversity of people, in our hiring, recruiting
and development of employees across the Company. All qualified
applicants for employment are encouraged to apply and will be
considered without regard to an individual's race, color, sex,
gender identity and gender expression (including transgender
individuals who are transitioning, have transitioned, or are
perceived to be transitioning to the gender with which they
identify), religion, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship,
physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care
status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual
orientation, genetic information, military or veteran status, or
any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. If you
are unable to submit your application due to a disability, please
contact us at recruiting@kariusdx.com and we will accommodate
qualified individuals with disabilities.$210,000 - $290,000 a
year
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