The Emerald Cloud Laboratory (ECL) enables life scientists to move out of the lab, and to conduct research entirely from a computer. Stepping away from manual completion of experiments at the bench, scientists on the ECL leverage the remote, automated execution of all standard biology and chemistry experiments in Emerald’s industrial lab facilities, working within a software platform for all stages of research workflows, from experimental design to data analysis. Our system empowers scientists at Big Pharma companies, startups, and academic laboratories by allowing them to run wet lab experiments from anywhere in the world without ever stepping foot into the lab.

Engineering at ECL

The Platform Engineer builds the distributed software systems that support the ECL, designing the way in which those systems are safely and scalably deployed in Docker containers on AWS, and contributing to core low-level components of Emerald's Symbolic Lab Language (SLL). Projects include: building a hybrid object / graph multi-tenant data store that supports describing all standard biology and chemistry experiments in code; managing the deployment of Kubernetes, enabling environment parity between our development and production environments; building a service to safely distribute and execute simulation, analysis, and testing code in SLL; working closely with our Scientific Development team in developing and optimizing data storage, retrieval and search functions in SLL. We’re a small team, which means it is essential for every team member to be ready to take ownership and lead projects.

As an early team member helping to build the Engineering team as well as the product, you will also be encouraged to contribute to the software engineering practices we maintain in our own work, and which we bring to ECL as a whole. We strive to be continually critical of our process, cutting cruft and homing in on performance multipliers (such as continuous integration and agile development practices).

Our Tech Stack

Our backend services are written in Go, and deployed on AWS infrastructure in Docker containers, with container orchestration through Kubernetes. Our applications are web apps (React / HTML5 / CSS3) running on the desktop through NW.js, across Windows and Mac OS. Our source code control is on Github, with integration with Travis CI for continuous testing. The Symbolic Lab Language is written in the Wolfram Language.

The Platform Engineering role operates mostly in Go, AWS (Postgres RDS, S3, EC2, SQS, etc.), Docker, and Kubernetes. More broadly, developing the software to enable cloud-based science is an expansive, diverse challenge. A core component of our job is consistently determining the right tools for the job at hand, and diving in to learn these new technologies along the way.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience providing backend development to products and enterprise software
• 2 years of experience working with Go and background with other back end languages and tools
• Prefer experience with Kubernetes and Docker for containerization
• 3+ years in Cloud or AWS hands on development
• Experience working with startups or small growing companies.
• 3+ years of experience managing and growing engineering teams.
• 5 years of full life cycle experience with software product development
• Project Management abilities and experience working with and providing status to Executive stake holders

About ECL: https://www.emeraldcloudlab.comThe Emerald Cloud Laboratory (ECL) enables life scientists to move out of the lab, and to conduct research entirely from a computer. Stepping away from manual completion of experiments at the bench, scientists on the ECL leverage the remote, automated execution of all standard biology and chemistry experiments in Emerald’s industrial lab facilities, working within a software platform for all stages of research workflows, from experimental design to data analysis.

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At Emerald Cloud Lab, we are committed to pioneering the future of scientific research by providing an innovative, cloud-based laboratory environment. We believe in the power of collaboration, diversity, and the continuous pursuit of knowledge to drive groundbreaking discoveries. If you are passionate about reshaping the landscape of scientific experimentation and eager to contribute to a culture of excellence and innovation, we invite you to join us.