Site Reliability Engineer
Join Watershed Informatics as a Site Reliability Engineer to build and manage high-performance Linux server infrastructure for biocomputing.
Posted by employer 2 years ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
At Watershed Informatics, the Site Reliability Engineer focuses on building and managing a robust fleet of Linux servers to support high-performance computing for biological data analysis. This role requires expertise in infrastructure-as-code, virtualization, and Linux Kernel internals, along with a proactive approach to problem-solving and system performance monitoring. Ideal candidates are experienced professionals who can bridge the gap between hardware and software, contributing to a team dedicated to advancing biocomputing solutions in a rapidly evolving industry.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Watershed Informatics's career page.
- Watershed Informatics has 7 other open roles including Customer Success Engineer, Bioinformatics, Infrastructure Engineer, Software Engineer, UI.
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- Typical Linux salary we track runs $109,000–$165,000 (median $130,000, across 442 roles). See Linux salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Site Reliability Engineer role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in Cambridge, MA.
- Where is the role based?
- Watershed Informatics is hiring for this position in Cambridge, MA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Linux, Networking, Virtualization, infrastructure as code.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Watershed Informatics targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Site Reliability Engineer role at Watershed Informatics.
From the original posting
About Watershed
Our vision is to become the leading biocomputing platform. The future of biology is in big data analysis, and we are on a mission to accelerate digital drug discovery with the Watershed platform. Watershed enables scientists to conduct all essential analysis — from lab data to plot — with a single software platform.
We have attracted some of the best bioinformatics, engineering, and commercial talent, and we are growing! Join a team that’s intellectually curious with a bias for action, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, composed of people who have come together to enable outcomes while empowering the research of all those committed to changing lives — all while bringing transformational change to a $40 billion industry.
Role
Linux Systems Engineers at Watershed engineer infrastructure to meet the high-performance computing needs of modern biology. Designing systems that keep pace with the explosive growth in the kinds and size of biological data, you will work in a highly-customized bare metal environment where our biocomputing platform and analyses run at scale. You will be tasked with engineering a new cloud experience while enabling our technology evolution in a disciplined way.
Responsibilities
- Build, manage, and deploy a large fleet of Linux servers
- Research new technologies and solutions, implement them or build better
- Be the connection between hardware and software
- Monitor system performance and manage capacity.
- Fix and analyze technical incidents, solve ad hoc technical problems.
Qualifications
- Experience composing infrastructure-as-code for a modern environment
- Demonstrate a software developer mindset, building tools when necessary
- Knowledge of virtualization, networking, and Linux Kernel internals
- Ability to clearly communicate your thoughts, ask the right questions, and defend your views
- Responsibility and ownership over your domain.