Site Reliability Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Site Reliability role at Watershed Informatics. Cambridge · no salary stated · we estimate $115,000–$182,500 across the United States.
Watershed Informatics has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
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What you'll do
- Build, operate and roll out a substantial fleet of Linux servers
- Explore infrastructure technologies, then put useful options into practice or create improved solutions
- Connect hardware needs with software systems in a customized bare-metal computing environment
- Track performance and capacity, investigate incidents and resolve unexpected technical issues
What you bring
- You have built infrastructure-as-code for a modern environment
- You approach infrastructure like a software developer and can create tools when needed
- You understand virtualization, networking and Linux kernel internals
Who this fits
This role suits a mid-level Linux systems engineer who wants to work on high-performance computing infrastructure. You'll own your technical area and need to explain your reasoning, ask useful questions and stand behind your recommendations.
From the employer
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.
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