Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Freenome is a high-growth biotech company developing tests to detect cancer using a standard blood draw. Freenome utilizes a multiomics platform that combines tumor and non-tumor signals with machine learning to detect cancer in its earliest, most-treatable stages.

Founded in 2014, Freenome has over 500 employees and is growing to match its ambitions to provide access to better screening and earlier cancer detection. Freenome aims to impact patients by empowering everyone to prevent, detect, and treat their disease. This, together with its high-performing culture of respect and cross-collaboration, motivates the team to make every day count.

Become a Freenomer: A “Freenomer” is a determined, mission-driven, results-oriented employee fueled by the opportunity to change the landscape of cancer and make a positive impact on patients’ lives. Freenomers bring their diverse experience, expertise, and personal perspective to solve problems and push to achieve what’s possible, one breakthrough at a time.

About this Opportunity

Freenome is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build a cloud-native machine learning platform for the world’s largest multi-analyte cancer genomics dataset.

As an engineering-forward biotech company, Freenome applies modern engineering practices to build reliable, maintainable, scalable, and secure production systems for its clinical lab and Computational and Molecular Research Scientists.

The infrastructure team is a small group where you will help set the culture and build the systems that allow the company to move fast without breaking things. This is an opportunity to do meaningful engineering work that will directly save lives.

The role reports to the Director, Cloud Infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Execution Excellence:

• Provide direct, strategic, and tactical leadership to your department.
• Provide leadership in developing new strategies, methodologies, and solutions to improve execution towards department- and company-level objectives.
• Partner with the QA Department to ensure the highest level of regulatory compliance with recognized quality best practices.
• Translate business segment strategy into cross-functional plans and guide plan execution.
• Be accountable for the performance and results of your department (Monitoring performance and initiating action to strengthen results).
• Proactively communicate cross-functionally with key stakeholders to adapt as needed through reprioritization and alignment.
• Ensure budgets, resourcing, and timelines meet company requirements.
• Empower the department to take calculated risks.