Senior Software Engineer

Owkin; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Friendly and informal working env

International team with high technical

Job summary

Owkin invites a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform Services team to design, build, and maintain scalable data management and processing systems on cloud infrastructure. You will ensure privacy, security, and compliance while delivering high-availability services across the full data lifecycle.

You will own critical components end-to-end, drive standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with researchers and data scientists to accelerate biomedical research and AI engineering within

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with leadership in designing, deploying and operating scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with Python or Go and modern containerization technologies.
• Strong Linux/Cloud fundamentals and focus on security, observability and quality.
• Full professional proficiency in English and async communication across a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and services at scale.
• Own critical platform components end-to-end and drive architectural standards.
• Mentor junior/mid-level engineers and improve CI/CD and security practices.
• Collaborate with data scientists and researchers to accelerate biomedical AI workflows.
• Participate in incident response and improve observability and reliability.

Skills

Python

Go

English

AI tools usage

Observability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Our talented multidisciplinary team has expertise across data science, machine learning, medicine, and biology.

We are a community of diverse people bringing our energy and skills to find the right treatment for every patient. Our culture is expressed through our values of curiosity, care, collaboration, and creativity.

Owkin is an agentic AI company pioneering Biological Artificial Superintelligence to solve problems in biology where human researchers alone have failed.
Owkin builds K Pro - an AI scientist for pharmaceutical research and strategic decision-making. K Pro orchestrates a suite of AI skills and tools to decode complex biology, accelerate research, and dramatically increase productivity.
K Pro is built on Owkin’s unrivalled multimodal patient data network, state-of-the-art AI for biology and a decade of experience working with pharmaceutical partners.

Position is based in our Paris office or remotely in France, UK, Germany.

Please submit your CV in English

About the role:

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Platform Services team at Owkin, you will build and maintain scalable data management and processing systems on cloud infrastructure.

These systems support complex biomedical research and business intelligence use cases across their full lifecycle.

You will ensure these systems meet high standards of privacy, security, and compliance.

In particular, you will:

Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and services at the intersection of agentic AI and petabytes of multimodal patient data.

Own specific critical platform components end-to-end.

Drive technical standards, architectural reviews, and best practices across the engineering department.

Mentor junior/mid-level engineers.

Contribute to the design and evolution of our product architecture across a number of use cases of scalable scientific computing, data processing and AI engineering.

Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, researchers and data scientists to understand their needs and implement solutions that enhance their productivity.

Support and improve our CI/CD pipelines, development workflows, and security practices.

Participate in incident response to ensure high availability and reliability.

Contribute to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data (security by design, vulnerability reduction).

Improve the modularity and the performance of our solution.

Improve the observability of the stack and increase its resiliency.

Contribute to and improve our development tooling and processes.

Participate in a team wise shared on-call rotation.

Impact on stakeholders:

Direct impact on K Pro users & Owkin products and other Owkin customers through enhanced performance and feature delivery.

Bioinformaticians, data scientists and researchers: you will help create a user-friendly environment that accelerates their work through streamlined data access, efficient processing, and seamless project collaboration.

Owkin partners: you will strengthen Owkin's data network with academic partners by enabling them to share their data securely and easily.

Amplifying the productivity of Owkin developers as part of a platform services team working on transversal platform features.

This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of AI engineering with biomedical research and clinical development

About you

More than a list of requirements, we are looking for a skilled individual with a “can do” mindset, able to mobilize their experience to deliver value as part of a team. Autonomy in learning and delivering is valued as much as being able to embrace the culture and processes.

Required:

Significant experience (typically 7+ years) as a software engineer, demonstrating technical leadership in designing, deploying, and operating critical cloud infrastructure at scale.

Experience with either python or golang.

Strong experience in Docker.

Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code) to improve software engineering efficiency and productivity

Management of cloud infrastructure as code, using terraform and kubernetes on AWS, Azure or GCP

Experience in architectural design of complex systems, especially for complex data at scale.

Demonstrated attention to quality and software engineering processes, including observability and security: we run what we build.

Full professional proficiency in English and async communication: our team is distributed across Europe.

Preferred qualifications / bonus skills:

Familiarity with scientific or biomedical use cases (research and application)

Experience in AI and agentic AI applications

Experience in Data Engineering

Experience with MLOps practices

Frontend skills

Knowledge in healthcare or biomedical domains

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What we offer

Friendly and informal working environment

Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

Recruitment Process & Security

Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.