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.

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

Requirements

• 1+ years of core software development experience
• Fluent in at least 1 of the following languages: Javascript, Python, Java, C++
• 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, Amazon Aurora)

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.

Based in 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 further serve leading healthcare and life science organizations. Key investors include Google Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Northpond Ventures, TPG Biotech, and Foresite Capital.

If you are interested in joining our team, please apply today! 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.