Senior Bioinformatics Engineer

December 10

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Ancestry

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Consumer genomics • Family history • Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Data Science

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1983

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

🌍 Social Impact

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2012-09

Description

• Developing and maintaining bioinformatics pipelines • Optimizing AWS infrastructure • Automating workflows to support scientific research projects • Collaborating with scientists to design, implement and maintain workflows • Transitioning research and machine learning software into production environments • Building and supporting a scalable cloud environment used by Ancestry’s DNA Science team • Managing and optimizing AWS infrastructure to support bioinformatics pipelines • Driving enhancement of legacy codebases

Requirements

• A Master’s degree in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, or related field with 3 years of relevant industry experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience • Significant expertise in developing and deploying bioinformatics pipelines for large datasets • Fluency in multiple programming languages: Python, Rust, C++, PySpark • Strong experience with AWS infrastructure management, including AWS Batch and Parallel Cluster • Proven expertise in deploying pipelines in the cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) • Significant experience with workflow orchestration tools like Nextflow, and Snakemake • Strong experience with Conda for managing packages and environments • Solid experience with git and with developing and managing CI/CD pipelines • Expertise working with infrastructure tools including Terraform, and AWS CloudFormation • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills • Ability to work independently and as part of a team • Comprehensive experience working with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (preferred) • Deep expertise working with infrastructure tools like Terraform (preferred) • Significant expertise with cloud computing and distributed computing architectures (preferred)

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including health, dental and vision • Eligibility for bonus and equity