Compute Platform Engineer II

Job summary

The Compute Platform Engineer II develops and operates tools and workflows for a hybrid cloud and on-premises platform that supports interactive development, scalable batch computing, and production application deployments. The role builds code-driven environments, containers, and CI/CD pipelines; helps transition HPC users to the platform; and advises scientists on scaling applications to petabytes of data and optimizing performance across distributed computing systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, or Software Engineering.
• Experience with Python, cloud computing, and high-performance computing.
• Experience with at least one programming language, such as Python, Go, C++, Scala, or Java.
• Familiarity with software development tools, testing, documentation, operations, and observability.
• Cloud experience with platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Azure DevOps, CloudBuild, Jenkins, CircleCI, or GitLab.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and application deployment tools such as Helm.
• Experience with build tools such as make, CMake, spack, or easybuild.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Argo Workflows, Airflow, Nextflow, Snakemake, VisTrails, or Cromwell.
• Experience with agile development tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with high-performance application optimization and the open-source community.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate tools, services, and workflows that solve business and technical problems.
• Develop components of a hybrid on-premises and cloud compute platform for interactive and batch computing.
• Establish workflows to transition existing HPC users and teams to the platform.
• Build code-driven environments, applications, containers, and CI/CD deployments.
• Advise science users on scaling applications to petabytes of data and improving performance.
• Optimize solutions in large-scale distributed computing environments.
• Deliver tested, documented software with operational strategies.
• Apply platform abstractions consistently for logging and data lineage.
• Participate in code reviews and improve development standards and CI/CD practices.

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