Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud & Bioinformatics Workflows

Oracle; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a software engineer to build production-quality components for cloud platform services with a focus on bioinformatics and computational life sciences. You will design and implement backend services, APIs, data workflows, and automation in a collaborative, Agile environment.

The role requires 3+ years of experience, knowledge of HPC workflows, and proficiency in Java, Go, or Python. Candidates should be comfortable with cloud-native systems, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Domain awareness of bioinformatics or computational life sciences.
• Understanding of scientific computing workflows and large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software components for cloud platform services.
• Implement backend services, APIs, data-ingestion and processing components, workflow integrations, automation, and tooling.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to translate customer scenarios into features.
• Write tests and improve observability; participate in code reviews and engineering-planning activities.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

REST APIs

CI/CD

Cloud services

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Bioinformatics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Nextflow

Seqera

Snakemake

Cromwell/WDL

CWL

Job description

Oracle is seeking a software engineer to build production-quality components for cloud platform services with a focus on bioinformatics and computational life sciences. You will design and implement backend services, APIs, data workflows, and automation in a collaborative, Agile environment.

The role requires 3+ years of experience, knowledge of HPC workflows, and proficiency in Java, Go, or Python. Candidates should be comfortable with cloud-native systems, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD