Summary
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An early-stage technology venture is seeking a senior or lead platform engineer to become a key technical anchor. You will build production data infrastructure, own core architecture and security, and scale a platform designed to unify complex scientific data for both human researchers and AI systems. Leadership experience is welcome but not mandatory.
Highlights
High-compensation platform engineering opportunity with substantial equity at an early-stage AI and biotechnology venture. The role provides significant ownership of architecture, security, scaling, and foundational data infrastructure, with potential progression from senior to lead-level responsibility.
Description
Lead Platform Engineer / Senior Platform Engineer | $220k–$300k + 1–2% Equity
San Francisco
I’m working with an early-stage AI x BioTech startup building the data and reasoning infrastructure that could fundamentally change how biological research is conducted.
You do not need Leadership experience - its just desirable, this could be a perfect opportunity for a Senior Platform Engineer to move into a Lead Platform Engineer position (or a current Lead looking for a better more prospect heavy opportunity)
Scientists currently spend huge amounts of time wrangling fragmented lab data.
This team is building the foundational platform that turns that data into a unified, queryable knowledge base; designed for both scientists and AI agents.
As mentioned, they’re now looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to become the senior engineering anchor for the business and take ownership of the architecture, security and scaling of the core platform.
What you’ll be working on:
Building production data infrastructure, APIs, microservices and ingestion pipelinesArchitecting high-concurrency services in Go alongside Python/FastAPIProduction knowledge graphs and vector search (TypeDB, Qdrant)Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD and observabilitySecurity, tenant isolation and infrastructure architecture from first principlesSetting engineering standards and helping build the platform team as the company scales
Super Interesting role because:
$220k–$300k base + 1–2% equityGenuine foundational hire with significant technical ownershipA fntastic opportunity to be a part of something early-stage that is well backed and shows extreme promiseBacked by Long Journey Ventures and Caffeinated Capital$10M in funding despite only having 4 employees currently - they plan to use this to grow their headcount 400% within a few monthsAlready working witth leading research institutes/biotech companiesUp to $15k relocation support
The ideal background is 5+ years building serious backend infrastructure, distributed systems or data platforms.
You don’t need previous BioTech experience ; strong platform/infrastructure engineering is the priority.
Stack: Go, Python, FastAPI, TypeDB, TypeQL, Qdrant, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus.
This is a genuinely high-ownership role.
You won’t be inheriting a mature platform and maintaining it...
you’ll be helping define what the technical foundation of the company becomes.
Must be able to work onsite in San Francisco 5 days per week.
Unfortunately, visa sponsorship isn’t available for this position.
Interested? Apply directly or message me for more information.
Lead Platform Engineer / Senior Platform Engineer | $220k–$300k + 1–2% Equity
