Staff Software Engineer – Science
Company | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative |
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Location | San Carlos, CA, USA |
Salary | $214000 – $321000 |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | |
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant software experience
- Strong fundamentals in systems design, data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming principles.
- Past experience with data processing and orchestration pipelines, such as Argo Workflows, Databricks
- Solid experience with object oriented programming languages and scripting languages, such as Java, C++, Python, Golang, etc.
- Past experience with big data.
- Some experience with infrastructure and automation tools, such as Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Enthusiasm to ramp up on technologies and learn a new science domain.
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary environment (engineering, product, design)
Responsibilities
- Develop end-to-end, robust data pipeline architectures that seamlessly integrate data ingestion, preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, and deployment.
- Implement scalable data warehousing solutions to handle massive volumes of single-cell transcriptomics data and imaging data.
- Ensure data security and compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Implement optimization strategies such as data partitioning, indexing, and compression to enhance query performance and reduce computational costs.
- Create user-friendly APIs to enable researchers and scientists to easily access and explore the curated data.
- Develop scalable, maintainable, and testable software systems and participate in team conversations and efforts on engineering excellence.
- Collaborate with product managers, computational biologists, UX designers, and other software engineers to deliver constant incremental value for scientists without compromising on software quality.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with scientific computing libraries, such as NumPy and SciPy.