Senior Software Engineer, Data Solutions

By joining Invitae, you’ll work alongside some of the world’s experts in genetics and healthcare at the forefront of genetic medicine. We’ve crafted a culture that empowers our teams and our teammates to have the biggest impact and to explore their interests and capabilities. We prize freedom with accountability and offer significant flexibility, along with excellent benefits and competitive compensation in a fast-growing organization!

We are looking for a reliable and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Solutions Team in developing the data ingestion pipelines and data platform architecture that supports the analytical and reporting needs of data scientists, our bio informatics team, customers, and internal stakeholders.

What you’ll do:

• Support and collaborate with multiple teams to gather requirements, design software, and implement features that support multiple teams and use cases across Data Science, Bioinformatics, and Finance.
• Design and implement reliable, scalable and efficient data framework, data driven products and software solutions for external and internal customers
• Create a secure, flexible and powerful world-class Health Data Platform for medical research and treatment
• Enhance existing systems to automate and use latest technologies and tools
• Ability and passion for data to become the Subject Matter Expert working with users on databases, tables, schemas and meta-data
• Follow and contribute to agile best practices within the organization, looking for ways to streamline, automate and reduce redundancy and costs
• Support and respond to teammate and user questions in a fast-paced, collaborative environment in a timely manner

What you bring:

• Minimum of 4 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree, 2 years and a Master’s degree or beyond.
• Skilled in one or more high-level programming languages, including Scala, Python and a willingness to learn
• Hands-on experience with trouble-shooting, debugging, log collection, and alerting systems.
• Proficient in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (AWS preferred) including databases, monitoring, security, provisioning, and scalability.
• Experience with relational and columnar databases including Snowflake and RDS. Proven experience in writing, debugging and modifying SQL queries.
• Experience with one or more containerization tools, especially Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with messaging/queuing or stream processing systems (Kafka preferred)
• Laser focus on high quality code and process, including automated testing, documentation and coding best practices
• Demonstrated track record of working with cross functional teams to deliver value and features across the organization

Additional Preferred but not Required Skills:

• Hands-on experience working with large datasets, ETL pipelines, and modern warehouse technologies.
• Hands-on functional programming in Scala or other language
• Hands-on parallel programming in Spark or other platforms
• Experience with dbt or similar tools for data transformation, with Debezium or similar tools for change data capture, and Kafka for streaming data applications
• Experience with maintaining and administering Kubernetes clusters
• Experience with build automation and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)
• Experience with one or more data visualization tools (Looker preferred)

Nice to have:

• Demonstrated experience with data modeling/dimensional modeling
• Demonstrated experience with database performance tuning
• Familiarity with data lineage/data governance
• Demonstrated understanding of security principals including OAuth, Role-Based Access Control and encryption. Experience with Snowflake Security a plus and Data Governance a plus

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This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and location. This position is eligible for benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, flexible paid time off, Spring Health, Carrot Fertility, participation in a 401k with company match, ESPP, and many other additional voluntary benefits. Invitae also offers generous paid leave programs so you can spend time with your new child, recover from your own illness or care for a sick family member.

USA National Pay Range

$138,400—$173,000 USD
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