Platforms Engineer

Seqera exists to advance science for everyone through softwareWe provide software for scientists solving today's most complex and important challenges from pioneering innovative therapeutics to unveiling the secrets of our universe. The journey began a decade ago with Nextflow — open software that helps over 100,000 global scientists analyze and process data, with more power and flexibility than ever before.
Today, Seqera consolidates fragmented data and diverse computing resources into a unified platform. Our modern biotech stack is trusted by over 150 leading life sciences organizations. Empowered with modern software engineering, organizations conduct science faster, on larger datasets, and with more confidence. Seqera accelerates discoveries in an open world.
Would you like to be a part of a company with a bigger purpose and make it successful with your own ideas? If yes, keep reading

About Seqera

Seqera is on a mission to empower scientists and organizations to solve humanity’s biggest challenges through data-driven science. As the company behind Nextflow and the Seqera Platform, we enable global enterprises, biotech innovators, academic institutions, and public sector organizations to scale complex data workflows with confidence.

We’re a global, remote-friendly team with headquarters in Barcelona and colleagues across the US, UK, and beyond. As we continue to grow, we’re strengthening our internal foundations
- and that’s where you come in.

About the role

We are seeking a leader for our Platform Infrastructure team. This role owns infrastructure at Seqera in both directions: the internal platform our engineers build on, and the infrastructure we ship to customers. A large share of our customers experience Seqera through the infrastructure your team produces, which means much of this work is a product surface held to a product's quality bar. You will lead a team of DevOps and security engineers, and you will be a key member in our architecture review process, where infrastructure, security, and operability are weighed at design time alongside every other significant technical decision. This is a leadership role for someone who wants to define how a growing engineering organization builds, ships, and operates. You will report to the CTO.

What You’ll Do

• Own the reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness of our cloud infrastructure, and the ongoing health of the platform
  - what gets maintained, upgraded, and retired, not only what gets built.
• Lead the technical launch of our dedicated single-tenant hosting offering: tenancy and isolation model, provisioning, upgrade and patching strategy across many customer instances, operational tooling, and the per-tenant cost model it will be priced against.
• Own our Helm charts and Terraform provider as products
  - versioned, documented, and tested against supported deployment topologies, with the compatibility obligations that customer-deployed infrastructure carries.
• Own CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and the supported path from empty repo to production, so that teams get pipelines, deployment standards, and observability defaults without assembling them each time.
• Make cloud cost an engineering discipline: attribution by team and by tenant, anomaly alerting, an efficiency backlog with quantified savings, and cost as an input at design time rather than a surprise after the fact.
• Lead our security posture in practice
  - security architecture applied during design review, and the security story we present to enterprise and life-sciences customers.
• Own our formal incident response: severity definitions, an incident commander rotation, runbooks for our top failure modes, and blameless postmortems that change something.
• Define what production-ready means at Seqera
  - tests, observability, documentation, runbooks
  - and hold the bar consistently across teams.
• Grow and develop the Platform Infrastructure team, including active hiring at the senior engineer level and active mentorship and career planning for the whole team.
• Partner with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to bring infrastructure expertise into decisions early.

About you

You have led infrastructure, platform, or SRE teams with direct accountability for production reliability, and you are still close enough to the work to review it, set the standard, and make architectural calls yourself. You have deep Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform experience in enterprise settings, and strong opinions about infrastructure-as-code earned from operating it. You have shipped infrastructure that customer