Senior II/ Staff Software Engineer, Platform Operations
Lila Sciences · San Francisco, CA USA · San Francisco, CA
CHECKED 14H AGO
Bio & Science AIonsiteStaff$192k–$272k
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