Sr. Platform Engineer - Software Infrastructure

The Company

Dyno Therapeutics is reshaping the gene therapy landscape through AI-powered vectors. Through the application of our transformative technologies and strategic partnerships with leaders in gene therapy, we believe a future with life changing gene therapies for millions of people is within reach.

Our team includes world-class molecular and synthetic biologists, protein engineers and gene therapy scientists working alongside software engineers, data scientists, and machine learning experts to transform the landscape of available gene therapy capsids. Dyno was named Startup of the Year in 2020 by Xconomy, Endpoints 11 in 2021, and one of America’s Best Startups in 2022 & 2023 by Forbes!

The Role

Sr. Platform Engineer - Software Infrastructure. Dyno’s software platform is at the heart of Dyno’s business, and your work as a part of this team can have a major impact on the future of gene therapy. Our team is responsible for defining how Dyno leverages cloud platforms and software tools and frameworks to execute cutting edge scientific and operational objectives. We apply knowledge from industry leaders in the tech sector in creative and unique ways to build a high performing, reliable modern biotech research and development platform.

Our team is looking for candidates with a diverse set of skills and experience, and a passion for collaboration and learning on the fly.

How You Will Contribute

As a Sr. Platform Engineer on the Software Infrastructure team, you will take a major role in architecting and developing our cloud infrastructure and software development tools. You will collaborate with Software Engineers, ML Researchers & Engineers, Data Scientists, and Computational Biologists to improve and own our Software Platform infrastructure. You will contribute directly to shaping company wide strategy for how we execute on our infrastructure goals.

Responsibilities

• Work with interdisciplinary teams to solve engineering challenges in highly distributed systems.
• Develop and demonstrate software engineering best practices, including continuous integration, site reliability principles and test driven design.
• Drive improvements to our Software Development Life Cycle systems and processes, to include CI/CD, Codebase Management and Infrastructure as Code.
• Propose and execute software engineering and process improvement projects within an engineering team on a quarter-to-quarter horizon.
• Keep up to date with the latest cloud and software infrastructure trends and apply them to their best impact.
• Consult with Engineers and Scientists on how to properly leverage cloud and software technologies.
• Help define and implement the technical vision for how we utilize cloud technologies at Dyno.
• Work to identify and implement Information Security best-practices within our Platform systems.

Who You Are

• Driven to understand business needs and work collaboratively on infrastructure initiatives to support those needs.
• Enthused at working to shape an effective, diverse and equitable team culture.
• Thoughtful, rigorous and bold in tackling challenges creatively and sustainably.
• Excited to grow, learn and apply your skills at the intersections of Software Engineering and Biology.
• Excited by building relationships across teams and up-leveling junior engineers.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience with deploying software platforms on cloud-based platforms (GCP or AWS).
• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related with 3+ years of platform engineering experience in industry.
• Experience with CI/CD frameworks.
• Kubernetes experience.
• Expertise in Python and SQL.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying CI/CD tools like Argo CD, Spinnaker, Terraform Cloud.
• Experience with distributed data processing, ML and Jupyter notebooks within a research and development environment.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development, including distributed computing, cloud infrastructure and data warehousing.
• Experience maintaining a Python codebase and frameworks like Poetry, Bazel, etc.

Even if you don’t have all of the above experience but are excited about those areas - we welcome your application! This team does its best work when it includes individuals of diverse backgrounds and experiences.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Job Type: Full-time