# Senior Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Orchestra Bio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/orchestra-bio)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD, Monitoring, Observability, Alerting, SOC 2
**Posted:** 2025-08-06

> Builds and maintains scalable cloud infrastructure powering an AI-driven R&D platform for biotech, focusing on reliability, security, AI workloads, and developer tooling. Requires 5+ years in platform engineering with expertise in cloud IaC, CI/CD, and observability.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Design and maintain cloud infrastructure for mission-critical biotech R&D programs, handling sensitive scientific data, financial modeling, and AI workloads with high reliability and security.
- Build scalable platform infrastructure for AI-driven signals extraction from meeting transcripts, documents, and operational data, ensuring performance and cost efficiency.
- Create tooling, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and development environments to enable rapid and reliable feature shipping.
- Implement infrastructure for SOC 2 compliance, including security controls, monitoring, and audit preparation.

## Requirements

**Required:**
- 5+ years of platform/infrastructure engineering or SRE experience.
- Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure (**AWS**, **GCP**, **Azure**) including IaC tools (**Terraform**, **CloudFormation**).
- Hands-on experience with monitoring, observability, alerting systems, and incident response.
- Hands-on experience with **CI/CD** pipeline design, implementation, and maintenance.
- Collaborative mindset with experience in small, fast-moving engineering teams.

**Preferred:**
- **SOC 2** compliance implementation experience (security controls, monitoring, audit preparation).
- Performance optimization for data-intensive applications.
- AI-assisted development proficiency.

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