Senior Manager, DevOps & Software Engineering

Natera; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity awards

Health benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Wellness benefits

Job summary

Natera is seeking a Senior Manager of the Software Engineering & DevOps team within the DSPE department to lead development, testing, and deployment of data platforms, cloud automation, and analytics systems supporting lab operations and genetic counseling teams.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture for reliable, scalable systems, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high‑quality software that advances patient outcomes in genomics testing.

Qualifications

• Minimal Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Bioinformatics, or a related field.
• Advanced degrees preferred.
• Minimal 3 years of working experience in a highly regulated environment, e.g., CLIA and/or FDA compliant settings.
• Minimal 3 years of management experience leading a DevOps team, or a software development team.
• Demonstrable experience in designing, delivering, and maintaining/updating custom-developed software tools or systems for production environments, preferable in high-throughput settings (e.g., heavy traffic and/or high computation load).
• Demonstrable experience in creating software design specification documents, verification and validation documents, and user manuals.

Responsibilities

• Lead a DevOps team, working closely with other DSPE teams, to develop, test, deploy, maintain, and update DSPE's data platforms, cloud platforms, automation systems, and analytics systems.
• Manage the DevOps team, to achieve the timely and efficient delivery of software products and systems with correct and robust functionality.
• Train and coach team members on new technologies, procedures, and guidelines/best practices.
• Translate DSPE's business needs and project requirements into technical specifications and implementation plans.
• Working with DSPE leadership teams, create suitable system architecture and infrastructure design documents that can be efficiently implemented and maintained.
• Maintain and optimize infrastructure performance, monitoring key system metrics including network I/O, disk I/O, memory allocation, and compute resource utilization.
• Improve and enforce procedures for work efficiency, quality, and compliance.
• Lead and manage the technical documentation's creation and maintenance/update for all DSPE DevOps owned software tools and systems.
• Create training materials, and contribute to training activities, on DSPE DevOps owned software tools and systems.
• Engage proactively and directly with engineering and operational stakeholders to align infrastructure roadmaps, resolve technical dependencies, and report platform performance metrics.
• Represent the DSPE DevOps team in stakeholder meetings.

Skills

Python

PostgreSQL

MySQL

System architecture

Performance tuning

AWS

SDLC

Linux

Genomics

Genomics data

Git

Automation

IaC

Documentation

Communication

Interpersonal

Integrity

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Bioinformatics, or related field

Master's degree preferred

Doctorate degree

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub

GitLab

Job description

Natera is seeking a Senior Manager of the Software Engineering & DevOps team within the DSPE department to lead development, testing, and deployment of data platforms, cloud automation, and analytics systems supporting lab operations and genetic counseling teams.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture for reliable, scalable systems, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high‑quality software that advances patient outcomes in genomics testing.