DNAnexus is the leading cloud-based SaaS company serving the global life science community. DNAnexus’ health informatics platform serves customers across a spectrum of industries — government, biopharmaceutical, clinical diagnostics, healthcare, and academic research in 33 countries with compliant protection of data, privacy, and intellectual property. The platform provides a secure and collaborative environment where genomics, multi-omics, and real world data can be combined with clinical data at scale, providing new insights that can lead to improved diagnostics, new targeted therapies and better patient care.

Who We’re Looking For

You are a software engineer who wants to design and build core technologies for scaling up systems to thousands of servers for managing and analyzing petabytes of data. At the same time, you have a special passion for scalability and sustainability of software development. In this position, you will work on evolving an event-driven automation platform. You will be responsible for designing a product that is highly available, fault tolerant and responsive from the ground up. You will also collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure that our development practices are sustainable, so that our product can stay secure and compliant, and that our engineers can work easily with top-notch technologies.  You enjoy learning something new everyday, and you are motivated to aim for the best development practices possible.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable infrastructure specifically targeted to the cloud environment
• Design, document, and implement new web service APIs for internal and external services
• Contribute to the continuous evolution of our engineering best practices
• Implement CI pipelines to automate anything that can be automated in our process
• Enable integration of DNAnexus services with external systems

• Few years of core software development experience, strong computer science background
• Knowledge of JavaScript/Node.js/TypeScript; you will encounter code in other languages (Python, BASH, Lua); although you don’t need to be expert in all, we are looking for someone flexible and willing to learn
• Team-oriented, with strong communication skills
• Experience with Docker and general familiarity with the Linux shell
• Demonstrated ability to pick up new technologies and quickly adapt to new paradigms
• Understanding of database management systems - relational and NoSQL
• Eligibility to work in the Czech Republic

Nice to have

• Knowledge of AWS, including VPC, IAM, Lambda
• Experience with monorepo management tools like Rush.JS
• Experience in building and maintaining scalable distributed systems
• Experience with MongoDB

What We Care About

• Curiosity and humility. We are dedicated to learning and constantly improving.  We hope you also value "unknown unknowns" and have a natural drive to figure out how everything works.
• Agility and ownership. Our teams have a high degree of freedom on how they build their systems, but they also take full ownership of what they deliver, in the long run.
• Proactivity. An internal drive to leave things in a better state than they are. Going above and beyond to help our codebase to stay healthy.
• Monitoring and automation. We strongly believe that a fully automated system is key to rapid iterations, while an extensive set of metrics highlights what needs to be done.
• Balancing research and product. We value staying up-to-date on cutting edge research, while also shipping meaningful products enabling researchers to fulfill their mission.

Based in Mountain View, California, DNAnexus is experiencing rapid growth and is searching for the best talent to join our team. We recently completed a $200 million financing round to advance our growth globally to further serve leading healthcare and life science organizations. Key investors include Google Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Northpond Ventures, TPG Biotech, and Foresite Capital.

If you are interested in joining our team, please apply today! 

DNAnexus will provide the necessary support to enable the ideal candidate to work remotely within the Czech Republic.