- Company Name
- Ganymede
- Job Title
- Staff Software Engineer (Backend/Infra)
- Job Description
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**Job title**
Staff Software Engineer (Backend/Infra)
**Role Summary**
Lead the design, implementation, and operation of cloud‑native backend and infrastructure for a life‑sciences data platform. Own end‑to‑end ownership of critical platform components, architect technical strategy, and mentor engineering talent while working closely with product, design, and executive stakeholders.
**Expectations**
- Minimum 8 years of hands‑on backend/infrastructure engineering.
- Proven staff‑level leadership: take projects from concept to production, build technical vision, and influence business direction.
- Drive technical excellence across scalability, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Mentor junior engineers, set coding and design standards, and advocate for best practices.
- Collaborate tightly with cross‑functional teams to align engineering priorities with product strategy.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead backend and infrastructure development of critical platform components (design, coding, testing, deployment).
- Architect and maintain cloud‑native systems using Terraform, Helm/Kubernetes, GCP services (Pub/Sub, Workflows), APIs, event‑driven pipelines.
- Construct and communicate a vision that balances engineering feasibility with commercial impact.
- Mentor engineers and oversee their technical and design contributions.
- Collaborate with product, design, and leadership to prioritize roadmap and scope releases.
- Optimize backend stack for performance, reliability, and scalability through profiling, tuning, and resilient patterns.
- Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automated environments, and end‑to‑end testing frameworks.
- Ensure clear, concise written and verbal communication, including code documentation and stakeholder updates.
**Required Skills**
- Deep expertise in backend programming (e.g., Go, Java, Python, Node.js).
- Advanced proficiency with Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and GCP services (Pub/Sub, Workflows, Cloud Functions).
- Experience building and operating event‑driven, API‑centric architectures.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD automation, containerization, and testing best practices.
- Performance profiling, load testing, and capacity planning.
- Leadership and mentorship abilities; ability to sell technical vision to non‑technical stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; clean code and documentation skills.
- Empathy, kindness, and collaborative mindset.
**Pluses**
- SOC2, ISO, or other compliance experience.
- Kubernetes cluster management and release engineering.
- Cross‑cloud expertise (GCP + AWS).
- Demonstrated GitHub portfolio of complex projects.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
- Optional certifications: GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Terraform Associate.
San francisco, United states
On site
Senior
25-11-2025