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Principal Data Engineer

Flagship Pioneering · Cambridge, MA USA · On-site

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About the role

We are seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of the data platform underpinning our human genetics, multi-omics, and high-content imaging programs. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years building and operating production data infrastructure, with a track record of architecting and owning platforms end to end
  • Deep AWS expertise: S3, IAM, EC2, Batch, Lambda, and Spark (EMR or equivalent). Experience as technical owner of production cloud environments, including multi-account architecture and cross-account access
  • Strong Python and SQL, with a background in production-grade pipeline development
  • Production experience with workflow orchestration (Nextflow, Airflow, Temporal, Step Functions, Redun, or similar) and the judgement to evaluate and select among them
  • Infrastructure as code (CloudFormation/CDK), CI/CD, containers, and observability. DevOps is a core competency for this role
  • Data modelling and warehouse or lakehouse design, including metadata management, lineage, and data quality practice
More about this role

What if you could join a rapidly growing company and play a critical role in bringing new medicines to patients by helping scale the programmable infrastructure behind a new human cellular biology platform?

Vesalius Therapeutics is pioneering a new platform to generate breakthrough treatments for common diseases. Our platform combines large-scale human genetics, genomics, stem cell studies, high-dimensional cellular phenotyping, and artificial intelligence to uncover causal biology and identify optimal intervention points for new therapies. Vesalius was founded in 2019 by Flagship Pioneering.

We are seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of the data platform underpinning our human genetics, multi-omics, and high-content imaging programs.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role with broad technical authority. As the architectural lead for data engineering, you will set the direction for our AWS environment and the pipelines, catalog, and access layers built on it, defining the technical roadmap and the standards others build against. The scope spans core cloud data engineering (orchestration, warehousing, infrastructure as code, cost governance)...

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