Platform Engineer, Biotech
Company websitegetclera.com (Clera, opens in new tab)
Base salary $180K to $240K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA
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- LocationSan Francisco, CA
- WorkplaceOn-site
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (18 min ago) · observed since
About this job
About the Role
Join a biotech AI team building data infrastructure that turns clinical, genomic, imaging, and other biomedical data into reliable, model-ready assets. You will help design and operate the platform, with a focus on secure, governed data systems and production infrastructure for scientific and machine learning teams.
What You'll Do
Build and maintain cloud data platform components, including object storage, lakehouse architecture, catalogs, lineage, dataset versioning, and query and access layers.
Design and operate data warehouses and governed systems for clinical records, molecular features, metadata, retention, and dataset releases.
Develop reproducible bioinformatics workflows for omics data, using containerized pipelines and cloud batch compute.
Implement data quality checks, biological validation, and visualizations that help teams identify issues across processing steps.
Deliver versioned, training-ready datasets and data deployment interfaces for model use in partner environments.
Operate production infrastructure, including Kubernetes, CI/CD, workload orchestration, security, reliability, observability, and cost optimization.
What We're Looking For
Two to five years of experience building data infrastructure and production pipelines as a platform engineer in biotech, diagnostics, biobanking, health data, or a related field working with sensitive biological or clinical data.
Production experience operating Kubernetes clusters, writing infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar tools, and shipping tested, documented Python and/or Go code.
Experience designing CI/CD and deployment systems, orchestrating distributed workloads, and owning infrastructure reliability, observability, security, and cost.
Familiarity with a major cloud provider, preferably AWS, plus Docker, workflow managers such as Nextflow, lakehouse and warehouse design, data catalogs, and orchestration.
Experience with large-scale data pipelines, machine learning infrastructure, or GPU workloads is valuable. Knowledge of omics workflows, bioinformatics tools, OMOP, FHIR, R, or SQL is also relevant.
Experience implementing compliance controls and audit evidence for standards such as HIPAA, GDPR, or SOC 2 is beneficial.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $180,000 to $240,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
Hybrid role based in San Francisco, California. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate.
Source: Clera on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($180,000) is above 51% of the 4,300 Software Engineering roles in California listed on this site; 175 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $176,100; the middle half runs from $149,100 to $204,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.
This listingPlatform Engineer, Biotech$180K to $240K
Head of Engineering$180K to $220K
Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls$180K to $200K
Founding Applied AI Engineer$180K to $230K
QA Engineer$180K to $200K
Forward Deployed Engineer$180K to $220K
Founding Engineer$180K to $250K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Platform Engineer, Biotech (this listing) | $180K - $240K |
| Head of Engineering | $180K - $220K |
| Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls | $180K - $200K |
| Founding Applied AI Engineer | $180K - $230K |
| QA Engineer | $180K - $200K |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | $180K - $220K |
| Founding Engineer | $180K - $250K |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-11-06
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco
Base salary: $180,000 to $240,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
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