natera

Senior/Lead Bioinformatics Engineer

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At a Glance

Location
US Remote
Work Regime
remote
Employment
employment_required
Posted
2026-02-13T09:26:40-05:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSCI/CDDockerLinuxPython

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering
  • Medical

Requirements

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or a related field, with a strong focus on cancer genomics or epigenomics

Extensive hands-on experience developing bioinformatics pipelines using Nextflow and/or WDL

, including complex multi-step NGS workflows

Proven track record of building and supporting

production-level bioinformatics software

Responsibilities

Architect, develop, and maintain scalable, production-ready bioinformatics pipelines

for next-generation sequencing data, with primary ownership of workflows implemented in

Nextflow and WDL

Lead pipeline design decisions with a strong emphasis on

modularity, reusability, robustness, scalability, and maintainability

Refactor and optimize existing pipelines to improve performance, cost efficiency, fault tolerance, and ease of extension