Software Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

Eikon Therapeutics • Millbrae, CA

19h • Onsite

About The Position

The Software Engineering Manager, Data Engineering will join a multi-disciplinary engineering team that develops systems handling multiple high-throughput (PB/week) high-content imaging data streams. The position's primary responsibility will be to lead a small team to design and support mission-critical computational pipelines to analyze proprietary microscopy data, in collaboration with the larger Engineering, Research and Information Technology teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 15 years of relevant experience or a master's degree with 12 years of relevant experience or a PhD with 8 years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• Prior management and leadership experience.
• Prior experience building and supporting reliable production data pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in Postgres, Python, React, TypeScript.
• Experience in multiple strongly typed languages such as C++, C# or Java.
• Successful track record designing software and systems architecture, including API and database design, commercial application development, cloud services, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with architecting and building analysis software.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to bridge the gap between scientific users, engineers and developers.
• Team-oriented, flexible, able to adapt to rapidly evolving goals and challenges.
• Demonstrated leadership skills in a changing organization with evolving processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage a small team of software engineers.
• Maintain essential computational pipelines and applications for ongoing scientific research.
• Build reliable, flexible data processing and data storage architecture to organize biological and microscopy datasets and extract features from Eikon’s proprietary data.
• Work with data lakes and data pipelines to organize, clean, and serve scientific data for diverse use cases.
• Define and evolve the engineering system architecture vision to support system features and user-facing capabilities.
• Characterize and communicate design trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate with Product and Program Management to develop high-level roadmaps for key software deliverables satisfying defined system-level business needs and user acceptance tests.
• Stay up to date with emerging trends and advancements in machine learning, distributed systems, cloud technologies, and software engineering practices, and evaluate their potential impact on our internal products.

Benefits

• bonus and equity compensation
• 401k plan with company matching
• Medical (premiums covered by Eikon at 95%), dental and vision insurance (premiums covered by Eikon at 100%)
• Mental health and wellness benefits
• Weeklong summer and winter holiday shutdowns
• Generous paid time off and holiday policies
• Life/AD&D Insurance (premiums covered by Eikon at 100%) and optional supplemental employee-paid life/AD&D policies
• Enhanced parental leave benefit
• Daily subsidized lunch program when on-site

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager