Senior Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Cloud Systems (Remote)

Freenome; Brisbane (CA); Remote; USD 188,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Cash bonuses

Medical benefits

Job summary

Freenome seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead Platform Engineering, shaping the technical vision and building scalable cloud services for research and analytics. You’ll mentor teams, own architecture decisions, and advance AI-enabled platform capabilities while keeping hands-on involvement.

You will collaborate with data science and AI/ML groups to streamline workflows, tackle cost and reliability tradeoffs, and drive rapid, impactful platform deliverables across the org.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant software engineering experience, preferably in platform teams.
• 3+ years guiding complex initiatives end-to-end across teams: aligning stakeholders, communicating tradeoffs clearly, enabling delivery.
• 3+ years building and operating production platforms using Infrastructure as Code on a public cloud, preferably Azure or GCP.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one other high-level programming language.
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals, networking and virtualization, with hands-on troubleshooting and performance tuning at system level.
• Solid Kubernetes expertise, with experience owning controllers, operators, CRDs, admission control, scheduling, autoscaling, service mesh, or multi-cluster networking.
• Software architecture leadership: ship clean code, write design docs and ADRs, guide constructive reviews.
• You are a force multiplier who helps engineers grow and make teams more capable.
• Experience partnering with data science/AI/ML teams to improve workflows.
• Hands-on AI-assisted development and building reusable tools/workflows.

Responsibilities

• Shape Platform’s technical vision and roadmap with engineering and R&D leaders.
• Treat Platform and Data as Products, building trust with domain teams.
• Design and ship scalable platform systems and evolving architecture.
• Drive business-critical initiatives and delegate to scale execution.
• Support platform users to unblock work and improve reliability and capacity.
• Champion AI adoption and tailor tooling for varied technical backgrounds.
• Expand impact by building AI-enabled platform enhancements for Freenome users.
• Increase cloud cost visibility and drive waste-reducing initiatives.
• Mentor and develop other engineers and uphold Freenome’s high-performance culture.

Skills

Years of experience

Leadership

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Linux internals

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Architecture leadership

Mentoring

AI/ML collaboration

Tools

Azure

GCP

Job description

Freenome seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead Platform Engineering, shaping the technical vision and building scalable cloud services for research and analytics. You’ll mentor teams, own architecture decisions, and advance AI-enabled platform capabilities while keeping hands-on involvement.

You will collaborate with data science and AI/ML groups to streamline workflows, tackle cost and reliability tradeoffs, and drive rapid, impactful platform deliverables across the org.