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The Senior Software Engineer joins the team building the Molecular Platform, which provides cloud capabilities for scientific and enterprise customers to manage complex data, workflows, and related services. In this role, you will design, develop, test, and maintain production-quality software components, including backend services, APIs, data-ingestion components, and automation tools. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and applied scientists to translate customer scenarios into features while ensuring reliability through logging, metrics, and telemetry. The position requires proficiency in languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, or C#, along with experience in distributed systems, cloud-native services, and REST APIs. You will work on solving technical problems related to scientific workflows, data-processing applications, and AI-enabled services within a high-performance cloud environment.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.
Design, develop, test, and maintain software components for Molecular Platform services.
Implement backend services, APIs, data-ingestion components, and workflow integrations.
Translate customer scenarios and requirements into well-defined software features.
Write clean, maintainable, and secure code using established engineering practices.
Build unit, integration, and functional tests while participating in performance testing.
Add logging, metrics, telemetry, and alerts to improve service observability.
Investigate, debug, and resolve service issues in development and production environments.
Automate repeatable tasks related to deployment, configuration, testing, and service operations.
What we're looking for
Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
3+ years of professional software-development experience delivering production software or services is required.
Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, or C# are required.
Experience developing backend applications, cloud-native services, distributed-system components, data-processing applications, or workflow systems is required.
Familiarity with REST APIs, source control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, and cloud services is required.
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, is required.
Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or another cloud platform (preferred).
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, distributed data systems, event-driven architectures, or workflow orchestration (preferred).
Java
Go
C++
Python
Distributed Systems
REST APIs
Microservices
Linux
NoSQL
Git
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Docker
OCI
AWS
Azure
GCP
Observability
Identity and Access Management