Staff Devops Engineer, Machine Learning #2569

GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. GRAIL, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). For more information, please visit www.grail.com.
Grail is looking for a scientific-computing focused DevOps engineer to manage and improve the infrastructure that software engineers and scientists rely on across all stages of our research program. You will collaborate with cross functional teams including Bioinformatics, Software Engineering, IT, Clinical and Lab Operations, and Data Science to facilitate a diverse research environment, set up robust and reproducible computational tools, and monitor and optimize the team’s resource usage. In this role, you will be in a position to empower the engineering and scientist teams with the platforms they need as we work towards detecting cancer early!

Responsibilties

• Design, create, and maintain systems and infrastructure.
• Write tools to improve productivity of team members.
• Improve maintainability and robustness of the codebase.
• Monitor and improve the availability, and usage of scientific compute resources. 
• Help evolve code and environment architectural design to support a growing team of 70+ software and bioinformatics engineers.
• Pioneer, implement, and enforce best practices for automated testing, software deployment, and code management.

Your background should include

• 5+ years of professional experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Cloud infrastructure engineer role.
• Strong knowledge of one or more build systems: Bazel, Buck, Maven, Gradle
• Strong knowledge of continuous integration, Gitlab, Jira
• Strong Bash skills
• Experience with Docker
• Some experience writing Python, Java, Golang, Ruby, R, or TypeScript (R experience especially preferred).

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with scientific computing tools: Tensorflow, NumPy, PyTorch, Jupyter, R Notebook, etc
• Knowledge of terraform, AWS security, architecture and best practices
• Experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters

GRAIL is an Equal Employment Office and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Following extensive monitoring, consideration of business implications, and advice from internal and external experts, GRAIL US has made the decision to require that all U.S. employees be “Fully Vaccinated” with the COVID-19 vaccine. “Fully Vaccinated” is defined as two weeks after both doses of a two-dose vaccine (e.g. Pfizer or Moderna) or two weeks since a single-dose vaccine (e.g. Johnson & Johnson) has been administered. Absent a qualifying exemption, all GRAIL US employees are to comply with this requirement, including providing documentation of such vaccination status, as a condition of employment. Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or disability that prevents them from being vaccinated, can request a reasonable accommodation for consideration by GRAIL.