Duties & Responsibilities

Development, implementation, testing, and continued maintenance of the VDB Library, the SRA Toolkit and related projects.
Participate in development of “cloud ready” tools and pipelines to support sustainable scalability and enable use by collaborators and scientists in the field.
Learn new technologies, keep up with the internal systems, and share your knowledge with the team.
Lead other developers.

Requirements

5+ years experience and demonstrated proficiency in Object-Oriented programming using C++.
Programming experience in a Linux environment.
Experience with Cloud technologies:
- AWS: EC2, S3, Lambda
- GCP: GKE, Google Store, Cloud functions
Fluency in some of scripting languages such as bash, perl, or Python.
Ability to work with JSON and similar structured document formats.
Experience with network programming, multi-threaded programming.
Experience with SQL and relational databases.
Experience with open source projects.
Experience with Agile development methodologies.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, unit tests, integration and regression testing.

5+ years of working with genetic and biological data.
Demonstrated active involvement into open source communities (github, etc.).
Experience in multi-platform development (POSIX, WinAPI).
Experience with containers (Docker).
Experience with parsing tools (flex/bison) and design and implementation of domain-specific languages.