The Role
As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you'll architect, secure, and optimize cloud infrastructure, mentor engineers, and lead initiatives for innovative solutions, collaborating across teams to enhance cloud capabilities.
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Who We Are & What We Do
At Helix, our mission is simple: to help everyone improve their lives through their DNA.
Ready to make a real-world impact with your skills? At Helix, we're transforming healthcare by making genomics a standard of care. We partner with health systems and life science companies to accelerate the integration of genomic data into clinical practice. Join us in building a future where healthcare is personalized, proactive, and powered by genomics.
Your Career Path & Development
We are committed to your long-term growth. We invest in you through:
- Cutting-Edge AI Tooling: We equip our engineers to innovate at speed. You'll have full access to GitHub Copilot, frontier models (like Claude and OpenAI), Gemini, and other new tools as they emerge, all supported by our dedicated internal AI team.
- Continuous Learning: Sharpen your skills with full access to the entire Udemy learning database.
- Internal Mentorship: Learn from experts across our global team through tech demos, pair programming, and collaborative projects.
- Clear Advancement: We provide a framework for you to grow from one role to the next, with clear expectations and support from your manager.
- Travel: Opportunities to travel to the US for collaboration with our global teams.
Your Impact in this role:
As a Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud & Automation at Helix, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, and securing our critical cloud infrastructure that supports our platform. You collaborate closely with product managers, scientists, and other engineers to innovate and evolve our cloud infrastructure while ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud & Automation, you will:
- Lead the strategic evolution of our cloud infrastructure, proactively identifying opportunities to enhance support for product teams. Drive innovation in cloud infrastructure strategy.
- Collaborate with product management, scientists, and engineering teams to understand intricate requirements and develop comprehensive, forward-thinking engineering designs.
- Architect and implement highly reliable and massively scalable cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS and potentially other platforms, anticipating future growth and evolving user and health system needs. Ensure alignment with the long-term architectural vision.
- Champion and promote Cloud Engineering best practices across teams, influencing technical direction and standards.
- Strategically lead initiatives to optimize cloud spending, demonstrating a strong understanding of budget ROI and resource utilization.
- Spearhead the development and advancement of sophisticated CI/CD pipelines for highly automated, efficient, and resilient build, test, and deployment processes.
- Define and implement comprehensive observability strategies, selecting and managing advanced tools to provide deep insights into system health and performance, and proactively predict and mitigate potential issues.
- Mentor and guide Infrastructure Engineers by providing technical expertise, constructive feedback, coaching, and support to foster their professional development and drive excellence in cloud operations.
About You:
- Experience integrating and utilizing AI-powered tools for proactive observability, cost optimization, and code analysis to improve cloud operations and development.
- Ability to evaluate and recommend new AI tools to enhance cloud operations and development workflows.
- A strong passion for improving people’s lives through access to better information about their DNA
- Minimum of 5+ years of progressive hands-on experience in cloud architecture, deployment, and operations, demonstrating increasing technical leadership and strategic impact.
- 5+ years of significant software development experience in one of the following: Go, Python, or a similar language, with a proven track record of designing and implementing complex cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
- 5+ years of in-depth experience in cloud computing, with at least 5 years of demonstrable expert-level experience with a broad range of AWS services and a deep understanding of cloud architectural patterns.
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, demonstrating ownership, providing leadership during incidents, and driving root cause analysis and preventative measures.
- Expert-level sysadmin skills in a Linux environment, including mastery of Bash and other scripting languages for advanced automation, diagnostics, and performance tuning.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing infrastructure-as-code tooling/frameworks — e.g., Terraform and CDK — at scale, including defining best practices and standards.
- A strong affinity for and proven ability to champion an engineering culture that emphasizes Agile methodologies, DevOps principles, and continuous delivery practices across teams.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the proven ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences, including executive stakeholders.
Pluses:
- Direct experience with CircleCi, Rollbar and Pagerduty
- Familiarity with full-stack development
- Familiarity with regulated software systems and entities
- AWS or other cloud certifications
- Multi Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- BS+ in Computer Science; coursework in genetics or bioinformatics
What We Offer: A Commitment to Your Success
We take care of our team with benefits that provide flexibility and support for your growth; what we call prestaciones superiores a las de la ley.
- Competitive Compensation: A strong base salary plus an annual performance bonus.
- Monthly Salary Range: $95,000MXN - $125,000 MXN
- Bonus: 5%
- Comprehensive Health: 100% employer-paid premium for our Bronze Family Health Insurance plan, with eligibility from your first day.
- Allowances & Stipends:
- Home Office Stipend: we will reimburse up to $500 USD for essential workspace items, so you are fully equipped to perform your best.
- Phone Allowance: 700 MXN monthly.
- In-Office Perks: 80 MXNdaily for transport and 250 MXN daily for snacks on office days.
- Plus all bonuses and allowances as required under Mexican labor law
- Generous Time Off: Flexible vacation policy plus all national holidays.
- Hybrid & Remote Flexibility:
- Hybrid: Our office is located at WeWork - Varsovia, Mexico City. We gather intentionally in our office space once per week to work on things like pair programming/live collaboration, skillshare sessions, social segments, team lunches, and volunteering opportunities. Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, CDMX.
- Remote (for team members living 80 km or more outside Mexico City): We'll invite you to our CDMX office 3-6 times a year for key training and team meetings. These visits are a great chance to connect in person and strengthen our Helix community. Helix covers the cost of travel and accommodations.
Expected Interview Process:
1) Recruiter Screen 2) Manager Screen/Tech Screen 3) Virtual Onsite 4) Offer
What To Expect During Your Onboarding Week:
We want to make sure your first week is spent learning the foundations. You will be invited to live orientation sessions and spend time with your hiring manager developing your individual roadmap to success. This experience will include sessions that cover your benefits, security & privacy training, an introduction to the OKR framework used at Helix and our communication tools and norms.
What To Expect During Your First 90 days:
First 30 days: you’ll spend time learning the Helix way, completing training and onboarding for your roles, and getting introduced to your team and relevant stakeholders. You’ll also gain a deeper understanding of our customers, our products, the impact we make in the lives of our communities, and how to thrive at Helix through participation in Helix U.
Day 30 - 60: you’ll spend time contributing to projects, deeply familiarizing yourself with team and company processes, and developing a deeper understanding of Helix’s products, services and capabilities.
Day 60 - 90: you’ll build your OKRs with your manager, start to take ownership of projects and initiatives on your team, and begin to demonstrate your impact on the Helix mission.
Helix is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture, deployment, and operations
- 5+ years of software development experience in Go, Python, or similar
- Expert-level experience with AWS services
- Sysadmin skills in a Linux environment, including mastery of Bash
- Experience in infrastructure-as-code tooling/frameworks like Terraform
Helix Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Helix and has not been reviewed or approved by Helix.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests generous PTO, flexible time away, unlimited vacation, paid sick days, and paid parental leave support work–life balance. These policies are frequently highlighted alongside flexible scheduling.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests medical, dental, and vision coverage are complemented by a wellness program. Access to health-focused initiatives contributes to a comprehensive core benefits package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Feedback suggests commuter benefits, free daily meals, and onsite parking enhance day‑to‑day experience. Such perks, combined with flexible work arrangements, add lifestyle value beyond base pay.
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The Company
What We Do
Helix is a rapidly growing startup focused on personal genomics. Helix has a simple but powerful mission: to empower every person to improve their life through DNA. We’re creating an ecosystem where people can explore diverse and uniquely personalized applications provided by high-quality partners.
Why Work With Us
We are collaborators—scientists, engineers, designers, marketers, and more—working across four offices to solve complex challenges locked within the human genome. We are biased toward action as we strive to uphold integrity in sequencing, science, and communication. At Helix, transparency, collaboration, and empowerment drive us in all that we do.
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