Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

DNAnexus is the leading cloud-based SaaS company serving the global life science community. DNAnexus’ health informatics platform serves customers across a spectrum of industries — government, biopharmaceutical, clinical diagnostics, healthcare, and academic research in 33 countries with compliant protection of data, privacy, and intellectual property. The platform provides a secure and collaborative environment where genomics, multi-omics, and real world data can be combined with clinical data at scale, providing new insights that can lead to improved diagnostics, new targeted therapies and better patient care.

Key Company Highlights

• Founded in 2009 by leading Stanford genomic scientists, headquartered in Mountain View, CA, 150+ employees.
• Generating significant revenue, global footprint, ramping rapidly; with Enterprise customers including Ancestry, Regeneron, Natera, Johns Hopkins, FDA, Myriad Genetics, St Jude among others.
• FedRAMP Moderate ATO (“Authorized-To-Operate”) platform with current certifications in ISO27001, and HITRUST.
• Engaged on a 5 year, $20M contract with the FDA to power the precisionFDA collaborative omics environment in the cloud.
• Well funded by Tier-1 investors including Foresite Capital, Google Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Northpond Ventures and TPG Capital, among others.
• Massive, evolving market opportunity that hasn’t been adequately addressed yet.
• Passionate and proven executive leadership team with deep genomics, big data/analytics, and cloud expertise.   

Job Description

Who We’re Looking For

You are a software engineer who wants to build core technologies for scaling up systems to thousands of servers for managing and analyzing petabytes of data. In this position, you will work on building an event driven automation platform. You will be responsible for designing a product that is highly available, fault tolerant and responsive from the ground up. You will also evolve this platform beyond operational automation into new and exciting areas.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable infrastructure specifically targeted to the cloud environment
• Design, document, and implement new web service APIs for internal and external services
• Work closely with computational biologists and scientists to understand domain-specific needs
• Enable integration of DNAnexus services with external systems

What We Care About

• Curiosity and humility. We are dedicated to learning and constantly improving.  We hope you also value "unknown unknowns" and have a natural drive to figure out how everything works.
• Agility and ownership. Our teams have a high degree of freedom on how they build their systems, but they also take full ownership of what they deliver, in the long run.
• Monitoring and automation. We strongly believe that a fully automated system is key to rapid iterations, while an extensive set of metrics highlights what needs to be done.
• Balancing research and product. We value staying up-to-date on cutting edge research, while also shipping meaningful products enabling researchers to fulfill their mission.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual starting salary for this position is between $160,000 – $180,000.  Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits:

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, flexible paid time off, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and national holidays paid.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of core software development experience
• Experienced with NodeJS/Javascript and/or Python
• Experience using Linux and comfortable working in a Unix shell
• Team-oriented, with strong communication skills
• Computer science background, including low-level systems and algorithmic complexity
• Demonstrated ability to pick up new technologies and quickly adapt to new paradigms

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of AWS, including VPC, IAM, Lambda
• Database experience in document and/or relational databases (e.g. MongoDB, mySQL, PostgreSQL)

Additional Information

Based in San Francisco and Mountain View, California, DNAnexus is experiencing rapid growth and is searching for the best talent to join our team. We recently completed a $100 million financing round to advance our growth globally to furth