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Senior Platform Engineer, Lab Infrastructure and DevSecOps


Job Location:

South San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 2 November 2026 (9 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 30 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the Role

Join a biotechnology infrastructure team building and securing the systems behind high-throughput sequencing operations. This hands-on role spans on-premises lab infrastructure and cloud environments helping physical operations scale reliably and securely.

What Youll Do
  • Design and scale lab networks on-premises GPU compute and storage for large sequencing data workloads.
  • Build and automate network infrastructure using pfSense or MikroTik Terraform Ansible and GitHub Actions.
  • Develop security controls for networks and connected equipment conduct penetration testing and red-team activities manage vulnerabilities and respond to incidents.
  • Design and operate secure AWS infrastructure including VPC IAM and container services connected to on-premises labs.
  • Help bring new lab locations online with repeatable infrastructure and operational practices.
What Were Looking For
  • Seven to twelve years of experience in platform infrastructure systems or security engineering.
  • Hands-on experience supporting on-premises infrastructure for physical operations such as laboratories robotics factories hardware or data centers.
  • Strong networking skills including routing VLANs firewalls VPNs and DNS; experience designing networks with pfSense OPNsense or MikroTik is valuable.
  • Practical AWS experience including VPC and IAM plus infrastructure automation with Terraform Ansible CI/CD Python and Bash.
  • Security engineering or DevSecOps experience covering areas such as penetration testing vulnerability management threat modeling incident response or security controls.
  • Experience at early- to growth-stage companies with backgrounds beyond SaaS-only environments.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $205000 to $250000 annually. Equity details were not provided.

Location

Hybrid in South San Francisco California with in-person work Monday Wednesday and Friday.