Senior Staff, Software Engineer

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      "text": "About the role",
      "content": "<div>In this role, you'll be a senior technical leader on our bioinformatics pipeline team, contributing to long-term technical direction and architectural decisions for major systems with a focus on software and cloud architecture. You'll partner across Engineering, Data Science, R&amp;D, Regulatory, and Project Management to translate strategy into executable technical plans.</div>\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<div>This role sits at the intersection of deep technical expertise, design control rigor, and cross-functional leadership. We seek a leader who can hold the long view while still going deep on the hardest technical problems, and who elevates the team through the standards and systems they build.</div>"
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      "content": "<div>\n<p><strong>Strategy &amp; Architecture</strong></p>\n\n<li>\n<p>Set long-term technical strategy and architectural vision for our bioinformatics pipeline systems, ensuring today's decisions support tomorrow's product roadmap.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Lead system architecture and high-stakes design reviews end-to-end, guiding the team through the most complex technical tradeoffs.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Design and own data hand-off and integration architecture between software systems.</p>\n</li>\n\n<p><strong>Engineering Standards &amp; Process</strong></p>\n\n<li>\n<p>Serve as a leader in engineering best practices—establishing standards, driving software-development lifecycle (SDLC) rigor, and setting the bar for code quality, testing, and design across the team.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Drive requirements engineering, risk analysis, and verification strategies for regulated software components.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Partner with staff engineers on test design and execution, driving excellence in SDLC process implementation.</p>\n</li>\n\n<p><strong>Operations &amp; Delivery</strong></p>\n\n<li>\n<p>Architect and own the DevOps strategy for the pipeline team, including cybersecurity, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, observability, and environment management, ensuring reliability and compliance in a regulated context.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Work with data scientists, lab staff, and other stakeholders to implement production software for diagnostic applications.</p>\n</li>\n\n<p><strong>Leadership</strong></p>\n\n<li>\n<p>Partner with our Program Management team and engineering leadership on roadmap planning, milestone definition, resourcing, dependency management, and risk tracking across multi-quarter initiatives.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Mentor and develop staff and senior engineers, raising the team's technical ceiling and cultivating the next generation of technical leaders.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Serve as a recognized technical authority across the organization, influencing product and platform direction without direct authority over teams or roadmaps.</p>\n</li>\n\n</div>"
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