Lila Sciences is seeking an Infrastructure Software Engineer to build and scale the systems that support their scientific applications, ensuring the platform is robust, reproducible, and a joy to use.
Requirements
- Minimum of 4 years of experience writing software in a commercial setting in Go or Python.
- Proficiency in Containerization, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Strong understanding of git best practices.
- Experience implementing scalable software solutions.
- Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD, Github Actions
- Experience with AWS and services (EKS, RDS, S3, etc.)
- Experience with Kubernetes Operators
Responsibilities
- Participate in the entire software development life cycle, focusing on building and maintaining Kubernetes-based infrastructure supporting scientific services and pipelines.
- Develop platform tooling to streamline deployment, observability, and developer workflows.
- Contribute to infrastructure automation â building and maintaining Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes Operators, etc.
- Implement CI/CD best practices and advocate for DevOps culture across teams.
- Drive performance, security, and reliability improvements throughout the stack.
- Apply software engineering principles to platform and DevOps activities
Other
- Acute listening skills and patience to deeply understand user challenges.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and team-first mentality.
- Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders.
- Energetic self-starter and independent thinker with strong attention to detail.
- Eager to work with highly skilled and dynamic teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and technical setting.