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 utilize your expertise in distributed systems, infrastructure-as-code, and Linux environments. Fluency in English and a willingness to work onsite in Mexico City for at least three days a week are required.
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
- Expected annual salary of MXN 850,000 to 1,075,000
- Great benefits provided through the employer of record
- Onboarding week with live orientation sessions and individual roadmap development
- Training and onboarding for roles
- Introduction to the OKR framework used at Helix
- Communication tools and norms training
- First 90 days roadmap with learning the Helix way, contributing to projects, familiarizing with processes, and demonstrating impact on the Helix mission
- Equal opportunity employer with commitment to providing employment opportunities regardless of various protected classifications.