Senior Software Engineer - Reliability (Remote) at Freenome

Brisbane, California, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Healthcare, BiotechnologyIndustries

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years in software engineering or Infra/DevOps/SRE roles (Python or Go are what we currently use)
  • Experience deploying cloud infrastructure via automation (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep/ARM, etc.)
  • Incident management experience in cloud/software engineering as well as familiarity with incident management platforms (e.g., Incident.io, ServiceNow, Opsgenie, Pagerduty, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience operating production workloads in cloud environments
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes (AKS, GKE, or EKS)
  • Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills in distributed systems

Responsibilities

  • Define and implement observability practices (metrics, traces, dashboards, logs, alerts) for production systems
  • Partner with product, engineering, and lab teams to develop and maintain incident response playbooks and escalation procedures
  • Partner with engineering teams to define SLIs/SLOs and establish error budgets
  • Participate in on-call rotation for production systems, champion a focus on automation and self-healing
  • Contribute to production deployment and change-management processes that meet FDA and compliance requirements
  • Automate operational tasks, reducing manual intervention
  • Contribute to production systems and designs with the goal of improving reliability
  • Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage and deploy team owned infrastructure and subsystems
  • Help build out the SRE practice
  • Work closely with engineering, product, and lab teams to understand service reliability needs
  • Partner with TPMs, RA/QA, and compliance stakeholders to align operational practices with regulatory requirements
  • Participate in cross-functional incident reviews and postmortems
  • Share knowledge and document operational standards for consistency and onboarding
  • Design and run fire drills / tabletop exercises as well as disaster recovery exercises
  • Model Freenome’s values and principles in your work and interactions
  • Promote a collaborative, reliable engineering culture across product, infra, and lab engineering teams
  • Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and operational standards
  • Foster a culture of accountability, learning, and psychological safety
  • Independently drive reliability improvements in scoped systems or services
  • Provide mentorship to peers on observability, incident management, and operational best practices
  • Help build and evolve Freenome’s reliability practices and contribute to team strategy discussions

Skills

SRE
Observability
Metrics
Traces
Dashboards
Logs
Alerts
SLIs
SLOs
Error Budgets
Incident Response
On-call Rotation
Automation
Self-healing
Cloud Infrastructure
FDA Compliance
Runbooks
Monitoring

Freenome

Biotechnology company for early cancer detection

About Freenome

Freenome focuses on improving cancer detection through advanced blood tests. The company uses a multiomics approach, analyzing various biological data types, including genomics and proteomics, to find cancer markers in blood samples. This method allows for non-invasive early detection of cancer, which is crucial for effective treatment. Freenome differentiates itself from competitors by its unique combination of data analysis techniques and its commitment to clinical trials and research collaborations. The company's goal is to enhance cancer diagnostics and make early detection accessible to healthcare providers and patients, ultimately aiming to save lives through timely intervention.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2014Year Founded
$1,032.6MTotal Funding
LATE_VCCompany Stage
Biotechnology, HealthcareIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Competitive market-based salaries
Annual bonus opportunities
Relocation packages
Medical, dental, & vision coverage
401k
Wellness programs
Equity
PTO

Risks

Employee layoffs may affect morale and innovation efforts.
Integration of Oncimmune Ltd. could divert focus from core projects.
Competitive landscape in cancer detection may impact Freenome's market share.

Differentiation

Freenome uses a unique multiomics approach for early cancer detection.
The company focuses on non-invasive blood tests for cancer screening.
Freenome's platform designs personalized health conditions based on cell-free genome analysis.

Upsides

Recent $254 million funding boosts clinical programs and platform expansion.
Partnership with Walgreens enhances clinical trial diversity and patient recruitment.
PROACT LUNG study positions Freenome as a leader in lung cancer diagnostics.

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