Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Formation Bio
$175-230k
+ Equity
End-to-end medical trial solutions
Open for applications
End-to-end medical trial solutions
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$175-230k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.
Role
Who you are
- This position is ideal for an engineer who is passionate about continuous improvement, stable and secure platforms, and SRE culture
- Your expertise in software development, automation, diagnostics, and observability will be instrumental in driving Formation Bio’s mission to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5-10 years experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Systems Administrator, Infrastructure or DevOps Engineer, or similar relevant experience focusing on infrastructure management and automation
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills to effectively engage and work along stakeholders from diverse disciplines and varying levels of technical expertise
- Experience managing or coordinating technical projects, including resource budgeting, estimates, tracking, and reporting
- Demonstrated experience with AWS (including ECS/Fargate, ALB, Lambda, RDS) and the full end-to-end process of modern software development in a containerized environment
- Experience managing multiple shared COTS and FOSS software applications in a multi-tenant environment
- Experience with Bash, CircleCI, Docker, HashiCorp Vault, Python, and networking (virtual or physical)
- Experience with performing advanced diagnostics and root cause analyses. Digital forensics is a plus, but not required
- Experience in a regulated industry (especially pharmaceuticals or biotech) is a plus, but not required
What the job involves
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer supporting Product Engineering, you will play an important role in shaping the future of drug development at Formation Bio
- This position involves enabling the organization to ship more reliable products faster, without toil or roadblocks, to enable our business and accelerate the drug development process
- In this role, you will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and domain experts in the drug development field to design, build, and implement software
- Infrastructure solutions to provide a stable foundation for our drug development platform
- You will develop high-quality infrastructure software, design and implement standard architecture patterns, and help drive the strategic direction of our projects
- You will lead change and promote SRE culture throughout the company
- Consult with Product Engineers on the development and deployment of secure, observable, reliable software. Design new solutions to fill gaps, and see them through from concept to implementation
- Research, develop and maintain infrastructure services including load balancers, databases, secrets management. You will maintain IaaS cloud resources as well as hosted solutions in a range of operating environments including development, staging, and production
- Author, review, maintain and optimize Terraform code, container images, CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, shared services, and products
- Write, review, and provide feedback on requirements and design documents as well as operating and maintenance procedures
- Knowledge sharing, training, and mentoring for engineers on infrastructure and SRE fundamentals throughout the organization
- Participate in a support rotation during business hours
Our take
Clinical drug trials are lengthy and expensive, delaying the supply of vital new drugs to patients and costing lives. For Formation Bio, this is an efficiency issue - one which it hopes to solve with its end-to-end automation solution.
According to the company, its approach has teams running medical trials twice as fast and at half the cost. It's worked so well, in fact, that Formation Bio is looking to take drug development in-house.
Now a Unicorn, the company has secured heavyweights like Pfizer, Sanofi, Novartis and 23andMe as partners. Precisely how it will fare in the Big Pharma ecosystem remains to be seen, but the promise of cheaper drugs and faster innovation is certainly causing a stir in a market that has historically been resistant to both.
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Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2024
$372m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$156m
SERIES C
Total funding: $530.3m
Company values
- Think in first principles
- Be a scientist
- Deliver care
- Champion the mission
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Benjamine Liu
(CEO)Worked as a computational biologist at various Neurology departments, following a D.Phil in computational Biology and Psychiatry at Oxford. They are also an Advisor at Harvard Business School.
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