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Senior II/ Staff Software Engineer, Platform Operations

Lila Sciences · San Francisco, CA USA · San Francisco, CA

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Bio & Science AIonsiteStaff$192k–$272k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build infrastructure powering autonomous science and experiment orchestration.
  • Harden delivery platforms enabling fast, reliable software releases at scale.
  • Streamline deployment and observability with secure self-service defaults.

What they offer

  • Bonus potential
  • Early-stage equity
  • Medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Employer-paid life and disability insurance
  • Flexible time off and company holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Educational assistance program
  • Commuter benefits and subsidized lunch

Ideal candidate

A platform-minded reliability owner who thrives in fast-moving scientific environments and cares about secure, automated delivery. You balance startup velocity with rigor and enjoy enabling scientists and engineers with self-service systems.

Requirements

  • Expertise in DevOps, SRE, Systems Engineering, or Platform Engineering in large scale cloud environments
  • Expertise in deploying to cloud environments using infrastructure-as-code and containerization
  • Deep experience with CI/CD systems and GitOps practices
  • Strong proficiency in Python/scripting languages for automation and tooling
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes operations: deployments, networking, storage, observability, and troubleshooting

Lab profile

About Lila Sciences

Building an autonomous science platform where AI, automation, and biology co-evolve for medicine and materials.

What they build

  • Autonomous Science Platform
  • AI-designed biologics validated in wet-lab
  • Electro-optic materials and photonic devices

Known for

  • Large-scale automated data generation
  • High-throughput protein purification and analytics
  • Protein design and BioML modeling
  • Robotic orchestration and lab simulation
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