Watershed Informatics - Cambridge, MA
posted 3 days ago
About the position
Watershed is on a mission to become the leading biocomputing platform, focusing on accelerating digital drug discovery through big data analysis. Our platform allows scientists to conduct essential analyses from lab data to plot using a single software solution. We are headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and have attracted top talent in bioinformatics, engineering, and commercial sectors. Our team is intellectually curious and action-oriented, dedicated to empowering research that changes lives and transforming a $40 billion industry. As a Linux Systems Engineer at Watershed, you will engineer infrastructure to support the high-performance computing needs of modern biology. This role involves designing systems that can handle the rapid growth of biological data types and sizes. You will work in a highly-customized bare metal environment where our biocomputing platform and analyses operate at scale. Your responsibilities will include engineering a new cloud experience while facilitating our technology evolution in a disciplined manner.
Responsibilities
- Build, manage, and deploy a large fleet of Linux servers
- Research new technologies and solutions, implement them or build better
- Be the connection between hardware and software
- Monitor system performance and manage capacity
- Fix and analyze technical incidents, solve ad hoc technical problems.
Requirements
- Experience composing infrastructure-as-code for a modern environment
- Demonstrate a software developer mindset, building tools when necessary
- Knowledge of virtualization, networking, and Linux Kernel internals
- Ability to clearly communicate your thoughts, ask the right questions, and defend your views
- Responsibility and ownership over your domain.
