Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer - REMOTE (U.S)

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae) is dedicated to bringing comprehensive genetic information into mainstream medicine to improve healthcare for billions of people. Our team is driven to make a difference for the patients we serve. We are leading the transformation of the genetics industry, by making clinical-grade genetic information affordable and accessible to guide health decisions across all stages of life.

Our Staff Software Engineer will impact and influence multiple services and platforms through their highly developed system design and architecture skills. This individual contributor has the scope of multiple initiatives spanning across multiple teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own and deliver product or platform goals across multiple years and teams.

• Mentor and guide experienced engineers within the company, fostering technical growth and serving as a role model for engineers across multiple teams

• Define the what and how for projects while holding a high standard for technical outcomes and delivery

• Identify and prioritize the right solutions to solve ambiguous, open-ended problems

• Influence the roadmaps of other teams to hit business goals

• Define and deliver the vision for large business-impacting projects

• Influence stakeholders and get buy-ins across multiple teams and disciplines

• Design, architect, implement, test, monitor multiple microservices in production

• Ensure the team follows best practices and adheres to design principles

• Be responsible for monitoring and health of existing systems while building new

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and enhance existing systems

• Provide technical guidance and leadership on high-impact projects

• Contribute to architectural decisions and overall strategy for projects

• Build, optimize and scale software solutions on cloud computing platforms

• Stay current with new tools and emerging technologies

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or related field
• 7+ years progressive experience

• Strong collaboration and communication skills to effectively work with highly inclusive and diverse teams

• Strong foundation in software design principles

• Experience building and working with microservices

• Expertise in Python or high-level, interpreted, object-oriented programming language

• Experience building scalable systems using public cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure

• Experience working with Kubernetes, cache systems (e.g. Redis), message queuing systems (e.g. RMQ, Kafka), workflow orchestrators (e.g. Nextflow), storage options and types (NAS, NFS, S3, S3 bucket)

• Experience in building and enhancing continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD)

• Experience working with Agile development methodologies and practices

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills

• Experience working with Kubernetes, container orchestration

• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality maintainable code

• Proven track record of successfully managing complex technical projects spanning multiple teams

• Provides quality feedback on designs written by other engineers

• Create coherent designs with multiple systems that interact across system boundaries

• Roll out and deprecate major features or systems with minimal livesite impact

• Set clear system metrics and achieve them consistently throughout the lifetime of the system

• Designing systems and choosing the right technologies that fit within a larger architecture

• Owns the overall health and engineering quality of multiple systems

• Drive the strategy and implementation for system operations including testing, observability, and monitoring

• Deep expertise in the platforms and software used for the team's work

• Raise the bar across teams through system design, architecture, code-reviews, monitoring, etc