Senior Staff Software Engineer

About this opportunity: At Freenome, we are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to grow our Platform team. Join a stellar group of engineers who serve our mission to save lives with early cancer detection as we develop and commercialize new blood test products. In this role, you’ll bring compute platform expertise to shape technical direction and mentor others, while staying hands-on and close to design, code, and operations.

Platform Engineering's goal at Freenome is to multiply the productivity of domain experts. We build shared cloud services spanning a governed data lakehouse, batch and distributed compute, and self-service environments for research and analytics, championing developer effectiveness beyond engineering. We combine white-glove support with dedicated partnerships, bringing expert consulting and hands-on engineering to help specialist teams solve complex technical problems and meet critical business milestones.

This role reports to our Director of Engineering, Platform. This is a remote position within the US, with occasional travel to our headquarters in Brisbane, CA, 2-3 times a year. What you’ll do: Shape Platform’s technical vision and roadmap, working with engineering and R&D leaders to align platform priorities with company goals.

Treat Platform and Data as Products, building trust with leads and SMEs from domain teams, and translating shared needs into reusable platform solutions. Design and ship scalable platform systems, evolving the architectur