Infrastructure Engineer

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

Infrastructure 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 containerized 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 an enterprise infrastructure.

Research new technologies and solutions, implement them or build better

Be the connection between systems 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 internals

Ability to clearly communicate your thoughts, ask the right questions, and defend your views

Responsibility and ownership over your domain