GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. GRAIL, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). For more information, please visit www.grail.com.

GRAIL is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the Systems Infrastructure team, which develops highly-scalable software systems for ingesting, analyzing, and managing large amounts of genomics data.

We pride ourselves on building effective, efficient, easy to use and scalable software systems to address GRAIL’s many computational and automation related challenges.

Each team member has ownership of the quality of our products from design, through implementation, testing and production. We review code before check-in, have thorough unit and integration tests, continuous integration and reproducible production deployments that we jointly operate.

The Systems Infrastructure team works at the intersection of genomics, software engineering, and infrastructure. We write software that ingests terabytes of genomics data every day. We build a platform that analyzes this data (including the Reflow programming language). We develop tools for rapid iteration on novel algorithms and analyses. We develop applications for long-term storage and management of petabytes of data. We work on large, cross-functional projects that improve GRAIL’s entire software organization.

This is a hybrid role and requires you to be onsite 2 days a week in Menlo Park, CA 

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership for GRAIL’s Systems Infrastructure team
• Lead full life-cycle development of team projects from requirements gathering to completion
• Leading and contributing to design and code reviews
• Ensuring proper test coverage and observability of the platform
• Collaborate cross-functionally with R&D, LIMS and other stakeholders to understand their infrastructure needs
• Ensure the platform meets security, regulatory and compliance standards
• Mentoring junior team members

Preferred Quaifications

• Ideally your background will include 12+ years of experience in software development (10 years with an MS degree; 7 years with a PhD).
• Experience with distributed computing: cluster computing, caching, system design, fault-tolerance, high availability (HA)
• Experience of developing highly-scalable systems on AWS.
• Excellent knowledge of some general purpose programming languages, e.g. Go, Python, etc.
• A portfolio of large, complex cross-functional projects.
• Full life cycle software development 
• Excellent logical reasoning and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience as a mentor and a team lead.
• Experience working in highly regulated sectors is desirable.
• Experience with machine learning is a plus.

The expected, full-time, annual base pay scale for this position is $210,000 -$250,000. Actual base pay will consider skills, experience, and location.

Based on the role, colleagues may be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan tied to company and individual performance, or an incentive plan. We also offer a long-term incentive plan to align company and colleague success over time.

In addition, GRAIL offers a progressive benefit package, including flexible time-off, a 401k with a company match, and alongside our medical, dental, vision plans, carefully selected mindfulness offerings.

GRAIL is an Equal Employment Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. GRAIL maintains a drug-free workplace.