Senior Platform Engineer, Platform (Core Team)
Invitae (NYSE: NVTA) is a leading medical genetics company trusted by millions of patients and their providers to deliver timely genetic information using digital technology. We aim to provide accurate and actionable answers to strengthen medical decision-making for individuals and their families. Invitae's genetics experts apply a rigorous approach to data and research, serving as the foundation of their mission to bring comprehensive genetic information into mainstream medicine to improve healthcare for billions of people.
Invitae’s Cloud Team needs help to achieve our mission to create and run the systems upon which the rest of Invitae is built. The platform we maintain and advance provides self-service tooling, automation, and application deployment technology to support Invitae’s efforts to expand genetic services. This team leads high-risk/high-impact projects and engages in internal and external collaborations, regularly partners with our executive team.
This position is on the Invitae Cloud “Core” Team, who are responsible for the foundational aspects of the Cloud Platform such as Kubernetes, Cloud infrastructure, and tooling. The Cloud teams work closely together to offer a streamlined way to deploy, observe, and manage software in containers.
As a Senior Platform Engineer on the Invitae Cloud team, you will build new platform capabilities, support our existing customers, and help set the direction for cloud native technologies at Invitae. Engineers on our platform team come from a variety of backgrounds; including software engineering, DevOps, and site reliability. We are looking for engineers who bias towards automation and systems design with a dash of production support.
What you will do:
- Contribute to the Cloud Platform systems where your changes have an impact on a broad set of systems across the organization.
- Understand and manage Cloud infrastructure in AWS using Infrastructure As Code, primarily Terraform.
- Practice GitOps principles.
- Understand and manage 3rd party applications or tools that are used by the Cloud Platform to enable features like networking, observability, and security. For example nginx, prometheus, fluentbit, gatekeeper.
- Diagnose issues with containers orchestrated by Kubernetes and Cloud provider infrastructure to find the root cause of a problem.
- Participate in an on-call rotation where you are expected to be available at all times for critical incidents, like an outage. During business hours you are dedicated to helping our users with questions, issues, and other operational tasks.
- Keep our user’s workloads and the Platform’s tools up to date with the latest versions and best practices.
- Run small (2 to 6 week) experiments that address problems for our team and users.
- Use Bash, Python, Go, or Typescript to automate tasks or connect systems.
- Write guides, runbooks, and other documentation to help others use and maintain the Cloud platform.
What you bring:
- Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Demonstrated experience with AWS or equivalent Cloud providers.
- Demonstrated experience with one or more programming languages.
- Experience in supporting engineering teams and production systems
- Excellent asynchronous communication skills. Experience with distributed, remote teams is a plus.
- A desire to operate with freedom and accountability. A willingness to take risks and ownership of those risks.
- A passion for personal and professional growth
By joining Invitae, you’ll work alongside some of the world’s experts in genetics and healthcare at the forefront of genetic medicine. We’ve crafted a culture that empowers our teams and our teammates to have the biggest impact and to explore their interests and capabilities. We prize freedom with accountability and offer significant flexibility, along with excellent benefits and competitive compensation in a fast-growing organization.
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This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and location. This position is eligible for benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, flexible paid time off, Spring Health, Carrot Fertility, participation in a 401k with company match, ESPP, and many other additional voluntary benefits. Invitae also offers generous paid leave programs so you can spend time with your new child, recover from your own illness or care for a sick family member.
USA National Pay Range
$138,400—$173,000 USD
Please apply even if you don’t meet all of the “What you bring” requirements noted. It’s rare that someone checks every single item, it’s ok, we encourage you to apply anyways.
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