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The PositionA healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche
We are seeking a talented and highly motivated Bioinformatics Software Engineer with extensive experience in building, optimizing, and maintaining large-scale sequencing data pipelines. You will join a dynamic team supporting scientists and clinicians with robust, scalable, and reproducible workflows for DNA and RNA sequencing data analysis, leveraging best-in-class workflow management, containerization, and HPC/cloud computing technologies.
The Opportunity:
You will design, implement, and productionize a suite of automated pipelines for high-throughput sequencing data, enabling the rapid and reliable delivery of insight from raw data to actionable biological results.
You will evaluate, refine, and maintain dataflow architectures and ensure their seamless operation across a variety of computational environments.
You are an expert in modern workflow orchestration (such as Apache Airflow and Nextflow), containerization (Docker), and the optimized use of HPCs and cloud resources.
You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams of software engineers, bioinformaticians, and data scientists to deliver robust pipelines and tools that empower scientific discovery and support critical business objectives.
Who you are:
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Data Engineering, or related fields with 5+ years of relevant experience in clinical, academic, or industry settings.
Expert knowledge and experience with modern workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Nextflow) for deploying and maintaining pipelines in HPC and cloud environments.
Proficient in Docker or similar containerization technologies for creating reproducible and portable workflows.
Strong experience with HPC job schedulers (LSF, SLURM, SGE) and optimizing data pipelines for scalability, resource utilization, and throughput.
Skilled in Python for tool development and C/C++ for performance-critical components; familiarity with genomic data pipelines and file formats (e.g., FASTQ, BAM, VCF) is a plus.
Experienced in the full software development lifecycle, adhering to best practices like version control, CI/CD, and code reviews.
Adept at breaking down technical problems into modular solutions and working collaboratively in fast-paced, multi-project environments, with excellent communication and documentation skills.
Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.
Who we areA healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible.
Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management.
Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
