Senior Data Platform Engineer

Key Skills

3D data processing, Apache Kafka, AWS, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Data pipelines, Design of Experiment, Docker, Flight Data Monitoring-FDM, Genomic data, Github, JavaScript, Kubernetes-K8s, NoSQL, Python Programming, SQL

Job Description

Invitae is dedicated to bringing comprehensive genetic information into mainstream medicine to improve healthcare for billions of people. Our team is driven to make a difference for the patients we serve. We are leading the transformation of the genetics industry, by making genetic testing affordable and accessible for everyone to guide health decisions across all stages of life.

Invitae needs engineers with diverse backgrounds to help us achieve our mission. We are a cross-functional team of scientific domain experts and dedicated, curious engineers. We build systems that take massive amounts of genomic data, combine it with the world's scientific literature, add to it years of rigorously curated results, and package it all neatly for our scientists to consume. It's a lot of information. As the data gets bigger, our systems need to get better and faster. That's where you come in.

The role focuses specifically on the Patient Data Network, which includes Ciitizen, a health technology platform that enables patients with cancer and rare neurologic disorders to collect, digitize, and share their health information. This includes a wide array of consumer and enterprise products used by a variety of customers including patients, providers, biopharma, advocacy, and HIEs. Specific examples of these applications include the Patient Portal, Clinical Trial Matching, Healthcare Services Marketplace, Patient Cohort Manager, and Prism Reporting.

We are looking for a reliable and motivated Senior Data Platform Engineer to join our Patient Data Network team who can support our Data Platform Team in developing the data ingestion pipelines and data platform architecture that supports the analytical and reporting needs of internal stakeholders, data scientists, and our machine learning team, as well as externally facing products.

What you’ll do:

• Understand our complex data ecosystem and diverse types of data (structured and unstructured healthcare data)
• Design and implement large scale, high-performance data processing systems
• Design and implement platform data services with reliability, flexibility, and scalability
• Design and implement solutions to ensure platform data quality, security, and compliance

What you bring:

• 8 years of relevant experience in data engineering, data processing and data services
• Extensive hands-on experience working with large datasets, pipelines, and modern data technologies
• Self-starter attitude and ability to work towards a larger goal with minimal guidance
• Advanced experience in database technologies (SQL, NOSQL) s and performance tuning
• Solid understanding of software design patterns and functional programing paradigms
•  Strong background in Java, Python or Scala and a demonstrable ability to quickly learn
• Experience with messaging/queuing systems or stream processing systems
• Experience in building distributed systems with infrastructure automation, monitoring and alerting
• Experience in shipping multiple mission-critical systems to production
• Experience in supporting engineering teams and production systems
• Focus on high quality code, including automated testing and coding best practices

Additional Preferred but not Required Skills:

• Experience with healthcare data and standards (FHIR)
• Experience with running software applications in the cloud (AWS)
• Experience with Kubernetes / Kafka / Docker
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)

At Invitae, you’ll work alongside some of the world’s experts in genetics and healthcare at the forefront of genetic medicine. Our teams thrive in our dynamic organization, which has been designed to empower them to make the biggest impact they can for our patients. We give our employees the ability to explore interests and capabilities broadly within the organization. We prize freedom with accountability and offer significant flexibility. We also provide excellent benefits and competitive compensation in a fast-growing organization.

At Invitae, we’re changing healthcare to change lives. Join us.