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GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured.

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Staff Site Reliability Engineer #3718

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Employer Provided Salary: 180,000-210,000 Annually

GRAIL is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team to help us improve security and reliability of production systems that are critical for our mission to detect cancer early and save lives. You will contribute to the architecture, design, development, implementation, and be responsible for secure, healthy, and reliable operation of critical cloud-based infrastructure, services, and applications. You are someone who enjoys learning and implementing best industry technology trends and practices. You foster and contribute to the creative and collaborative culture to deliver results. You embrace ambiguity and enjoy exploring new technologies delivering robust, scalable solutions.

This is a hybrid role and requires you to be onsite 2 days a week in Menlo Park, CA

Responsibilities

Ensure High Availability: Implement and maintain resilient cloud architectures, monitor system performance, and proactively identify and resolve potential bottlenecks or points of failure.
Incident Management: Play an active role in production on-call, responding swiftly to troubleshoot and resolve production issues. Minimize service disruptions and downtime by conducting thorough triaging and debugging of product or system issues. Continuously optimize the on-call process for sustainability and efficiency.
Automation and Tooling: Develop and maintain automation scripts, tools, and processes to streamline system deployment, monitoring, and management tasks. Your contributions will be vital in efficiently scaling cloud operations.
Performance Optimization: Optimize cloud infrastructure and applications for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
Security and Compliance: Collaborate with security engineers to implement best practices and ensure compliance with security standards and policies.
Monitoring and Alerting: Design and configure advanced monitoring systems to gain insights into system behavior, set up alerts, and respond proactively to potential issues. Create and maintain comprehensive dashboards and playbooks for production on-call.
Software Development Consultation: Engage actively in the entire software development lifecycle. Participate in system design reviews and provide valuable Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) insights during launch reviews, influencing and enhancing system architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
3+ years of professional experience maintaining production systems on Cloud based services and infrastructure.
8+ years of software development experience in one or more programming languages with a primary focus on leveraging, working on cloud-based services and infrastructure.
Strong knowledge of AWS cloud platform
Practical experience with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
Familiarity with Python, Bash scripting and Ansible
Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform is essential.
Solid understanding of databases, networking, security principles, and best practices.
Proficiency in using monitoring and alerting tools to detect and respond to potential issues effectively.

Desired Skills

AWS Certifications (such as Solutions Architect, Security, etc.)
Experience in a regulated industry or healthcare field

The expected, full-time, annual base pay scale for this position is $180,000 - $210,000. Actual base pay will consider skills, experience, and location.

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Joerg Bredno

Principal Scientist, Computational Biology and Interpretation

WIDEN YOUR SCOPE

A huge data set with an even bigger impact

“Cancer is a nasty, diverse disease that can affect widely different regions in the genome,” Principal Scientist Joerg Bredno said, and understanding how and why cells change isn’t easy. Luckily, his team works with more than 12 petabytes of molecular data — which translates to more than 1 million gigabytes — and a high-performance scientific computing environment that can handle analysis at that scale. With these tools, Bredno’s team is building an even larger training data set for the next generation of GRAIL’s early detection, multi-cancer screening test, slated to roll out this year.

It is rewarding that we can see, learn and share relevant insights from our data that so far doesn't exist anywhere else in the world in this form.

Ting Ma

Associate Director, Data Engineering

ACCELERATE TOGETHER

A team united by passion, fueled by collaboration

GRAIL’s team sets lofty goals for its products, which require the unique talents and perspectives of every employee. Take one eight-month study that Associate Director Ting Ma worked on, parsing data from a GRAIL-sponsored clinical trial. Due to the volume of data, teamwork was imperative to define and implement clinical features, refine codes with robust test cases and tweak them as continuous feedback rolled in. The work is important, but that's not the only plus: “Cross-functional team collaboration is fun,” Ma said. “You get to learn so much while contributing to each project.”

GRAIL is taking on a challenge that is unprecedented. It can only become successful when people with different expertise collaborate deeply.

Ying Luan

Associate Biostatistical Director

UNCOVER NEW OPPORTUNITIES

Sharp talent, perpetually looking to learn more

There’s a reason top talent, like Associate Biostatistical Director Ying Luan, joins GRAIL. “Here, I knew I could have the opportunity to contribute to the development of innovative analysis methodologies,” Luan said. She’s now working on a diagnostic aid project, planning and designing validation for clinical studies. It’s a new area for her, but there’s plenty of support for learning new skills at the company: With resources like LinkedIn Learning, workshops and conferences, she finds footing in the field, while diversity and inclusion trainings connect her fully to GRAIL’s culture.

Post-launch activities and payer’s reimbursement were new to me when I joined GRAIL. But now, I’m learning new things on a daily basis with different stakeholders in mind.

What are GRAIL Perks + Benefits

GRAIL Benefits Overview

We’re committed to creating the best experience for everyone at GRAIL, ensuring that each member of our team has comprehensive benefits and resources to thrive at all stages of life, both at work and at home.

Culture

Volunteer in local community

We parter with Bay Area local partners such as Life Science Cares to help meet basic needs in the community.

Partners with nonprofits

GRAIL partners with The Honor Foundation to facilitate mock interviews to help military professionals transition to civilian life. Also oSTEM and The National Sales Network to identify diverse talent.

Open door policy

OKR operational model

Team based strategic planning

Open office floor plan

Employee resource groups

Employee-led culture committees

Hybrid work model

In-person all-hands meetings

Employee awards

Flexible work schedule

Remote work program

Diversity

Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff

Mandated unconscious bias training

Unconscious bias training is included as part of our standard interview training. We also have a formal training on the topic of unconscious bias that is facilitated by the People Team.

Diversity manifesto

Mean gender pay gap below 10%

Diversity employee resource groups

GRAIL proudly offers 4 employee resources groups led by team members in tandem with an executive sponsor. They include: ASERG, WERG, PRIDE, and BIPOCC.

Hiring practices that promote diversity

GRAIL's Talent team has partnered with a variety of non-profits, associations and job boards including WITI, oSTEM, THF, DiversityJobs and The National Sales Network to identify diverse talent.

Health Insurance + Wellness

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Disability insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Wellness programs

Team workouts

Mental health benefits

Abortion travel benefits

Financial & Retirement