About the position
As a DevOps Engineer at Helix, you will be part of a founding team based in Mexico City, working to impact health outcomes and advance genomic health worldwide. Your role will involve innovating on developer infrastructure, collaborating with various teams, and deploying and operating software with reliability and scale. With a focus on Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery, you will contribute to the integration of genomic data into patient care and public health decision making. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that values transparency and empowers individuals to make a meaningful impact through DNA.
Responsibilities
- Innovate on new ways to evolve developer infrastructure and productivity
- Collaborate with product managers, bioinformaticians, scientists, and other engineers
- Deploy and operate software with reliability and scale for developers and health systems
Requirements
- 3+ years development experience in Go, Python, Java, Javascript, or similar
- Proficiency with distributed systems built on cloud infrastructure — AWS or similar
- Experience with operating serverless (e.g., Lambda) and container-based (e.g., Docker) infrastructure
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling/frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CDK)
- Expert sysadmin skills in a Linux environment
- Affinity for an engineering culture that emphasizes Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery
- Willing to work onsite in Mexico City for at least three days each week
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal
- BS+ in Computer Science; coursework in genetics or bioinformatics (plus)
- Familiarity with regulated software systems and entities (plus)
Benefits
- Great benefits through the employer of record
- Live orientation sessions during onboarding week
- Individual roadmap to success
- Benefits, security & privacy training
- Introduction to the OKR framework and communication tools
- Learning the Helix way and completing training
- Getting introduced to the team and relevant stakeholders
- Deeper understanding of customers, products, and impact
- Participation in Helix U
- Contribution to projects and familiarization with processes
- Deeper understanding of Helix's products, services, and capabilities
- Building OKRs with manager
- Ownership of projects and initiatives
- Demonstrating impact on the Helix mission
- Equal opportunity employer