Senior ML Cloud Platform Engineer (GCP) | DevSecOps

Calico Life Sciences; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Two annual cash bonuses

Job summary

Calico Life Sciences seeks a Senior / Staff Cloud Engineer to lead the execution and operation of our next-generation ML platform on Google Cloud. You will serve as the technical authority for the GCP environment, building IaC, securing perimeters, and migrating workflows into a unified, compliant infrastructure.

You will bridge ML Systems and Research engineers to train and deploy ML models for frontier BioML research, with no biology background required for the role.

Qualifications

• BS/MS with 7+ years or PhD with 4+ years of relevant software engineering, DevSecOps, or Cloud architecture experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) core services.
• Experience with Kubernetes cluster administration.
• Experience with Terraform, building CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker).
• Must be willing to work onsite at least four days a week.

Responsibilities

• Deliver our next-generation ML platform.
• Lead the consolidation and modernization of our compute environments, and accelerate the whole company's R&D cycle.
• Lead the centralization of GCP projects into a unified, compliant landing zone.
• Design secure perimeters to protect sensitive data, and build automated guardrails using Terraform.
• Design, deploy, and maintain robust GKE clusters tailored for distributed ML training and batch processing workloads.
• Troubleshoot node-level GPU/TPU issues, manage scheduling add-ons, and optimize cluster autoscaling.
• Design onboarding processes and "paved paths" for scientists to onboard onto the new platform.
• Manage org-level GPU/TPU compute capacity, implement centralized billing and cost reporting, and build dashboards to track cluster utilization and optimize R&D expenditure.

Skills

Python

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD

Education

BS/MS or PhD in a relevant field

Tools

GCP Core Services

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Calico Life Sciences seeks a Senior / Staff Cloud Engineer to lead the execution and operation of our next-generation ML platform on Google Cloud. You will serve as the technical authority for the GCP environment, building IaC, securing perimeters, and migrating workflows into a unified, compliant infrastructure.

You will bridge ML Systems and Research engineers to train and deploy ML models for frontier BioML research, with no biology background required for the role.