Senior DevOps Software Engineer

Company: Guardant Health
Location: Redwood City
Posted on: February 18, 2021

Job Description:

Company DescriptionABOUT OUR COMPANYGuardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary blood tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health Oncology Platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has launched liquid biopsy-based Guardant360--, Guardant360 CDx and GuardantOMNI-- tests for advanced stage cancer patients. These tests fuel development of its LUNAR program, which aims to address the needs of early stage cancer patients with neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment selection, cancer survivors with surveillance, asymptomatic individuals eligible for cancer screening and individuals at a higher risk for developing cancer with early detection.Job Description* Work as part of our software development life cycle and address zero downtime release management* Engage as part of teams working on Agile based iterative development and help implement software engineering best practices* Design, implement and maintain large scale Kubernetes clusters with monitoring, logging and alerting* Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews* Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health and improving reliability* Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity* Practice sustainable incident response and root cause analysis to drive continuous improvement* Be part of an on-call rotation to support production systems and post-deployment monitoring* Focus on production-readiness, build and deliver SecOps tooling and features to run sensitive data workloads in productionQualificationsAre you dedicated, upbeat and dynamic with excellent software engineering ability? Are you a software engineer passionate about systems and highly motivated to solve complex technical problems? If so, you may be a perfect fit for our team.Experience Needed* 5+ years of DevOps cloud engineering experience with at least one of the leading public cloud platforms. AWS experience is desired* 3+ years of experience in running cloud services using products such as Kubernetes, Docker or OpenShift* Strong automation skills using tools such as Terraform, Jenkins and ArgoCD* Programming experience in operating cloud environments using languages such as Python, Go, Ruby, and Java* Experience working with designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems managing highly sensitive data* Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive* Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks* Worked in a high growth, fast paced environment with ability to multi-taskEducationBS or MS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience.To us, DevOps is a combination of great systems engineering and software engineering.Bonus points* Experience with side projects where you've learned to rapidly apply new technologies, frameworks or programming languages* Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design* Cloud solution architect certificate from any of the public clouds (such as AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)Additional InformationWORK ENVIRONMENTEmployee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.We would like to talk with you about our exciting projects we currently have ongoing. Please see www.guardanthealth.com/jobs for more information and to apply.All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. NO AGENCIES. To learn more about the information collected when you apply for a position at Guardant Health, Inc. and how it is used, please review our Privacy Notice for Job Applicants.NO AGENCIES PLEASE

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