The Pipeline Platform team builds the software that runs Invitae’s genetic data processing pipelines. This critical infrastructure enables the transformation of raw genetic data into interpretable information. We address foundational requirements like monitoring, alerting, security, and scalability at the platform level, allowing product teams to focus on delivering new genetic tests to our customers quickly.
The genetic testing space is moving and expanding quickly. In support of the Invitae mission, our engineering team needs to continue to move faster and with a greater focus on efficiency. We are looking for an engineering leader who can guide us through this transformation. Your experience, passion, and leadership skills will lay the foundation for Invitae’s continued success.
What you’ll do:
- Build and deliver the team’s vision and roadmap by combining your technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership
- Communicate and promote the value of the platform to engineering teams and business stakeholders
- Understand stakeholder requirements and translate those into outstanding developer experiences
- Work across all subject areas with partners to move software initiatives forward and ensure internal adoption
- Build a team environment where engineers are empowered to grow in their skills and responsibilities while delivering their best work
- Lead the team from ambiguity to clarity by maintaining stability, transparency, and alignment with business objectives
- Analyze data from multiple sources and help the team make the right trade-offs between capability, cost, engineering complexity, and other factors
- Define, track, and report on key metrics related to your team’s software systems
- Maintain the team’s focus on the shared vision
What you bring:
- Requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience.
- A minimum of 2 years of leadership experience.
- Proven ability to lead initiatives from inception to production
- Ability to communicate how engineering system design relates to company outcomes
- Experience balancing operations, maintenance, and new projects in a pragmatic way
- Deep technical knowledge around web application architectures, APIs, and developer tools
- Ability to identify and reconcile misalignment across engineering teams, product teams, and business collaborators
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly present sophisticated data and information to a variety of audiences, both technical and non-technical
Nice to haves:
- Experience with biology, genetics, or bioinformatics
- Experience with Python, Django, AWS, or high-performance computing (HPC)
