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.