You + Helix

Helix is a place where innovators and doers gather in order to drive significant progress in population genomics. We have come together to work at the intersection of clinical care, research, and genomics.

If you’re excited by the idea of making a meaningful impact and joining a team where we pride ourselves on driving innovation through fostering an environment with an emphasis on empowering one another to grow, Helix might be the place for you!

Helix + The World

Helix is the leading population genomics company. Helix enables health systems, public health organizations and life science companies to accelerate the integration of genomic data into patient care and public health decision making.

We are continuing to scale our world-class team to support our dedication to empowering every person to improve their life through DNA.

Helix + Transparency

At Helix, we value transparency. You will find the expected compensation, interview process, what to anticipate during onboarding, and your first 90 days listed in the job description for all Helix roles.

What is special about this role?

As Cloud Engineer, Senior at Helix, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, and securing our critical cloud infrastructure that supports our platform. You collaborate closely with product managers, scientists, and other engineers to innovate and evolve our cloud infrastructure while ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will:

• Innovate on new ways to evolve our cloud infrastructure and support our product teams.
• Collaborate with product managers, scientists, and other engineers to synthesize requirements and author new engineering designs.
• Build for reliability and scale across users and health systems.
• Advance Cloud Engineering best practices.
• Mentor and guide Cloud Engineers, providing technical expertise, coaching, and support to drive excellence in cloud operations.
• Implement strategies to optimize cloud spending and maximize budget ROI
• Design, architect, and implement robust and scalable cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS and other cloud platforms.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
• Implement and manage observability tools and frameworks to monitor system health, performance, and identify potential issues.

About you:

• A passion for improving people’s lives through access to better information about their DNA
• Minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience in cloud architecture, deployment, and operations
• 5+ years development experience in one of the following: Go, Python, or a similar language
• 5+ years of experience in cloud computing, with at least 5 years of expert-level AWS experience.
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule
• Expert sysadmin skills in a Linux environment, including Bash
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling/frameworks — e.g., Terraform and CDK
• Affinity for an engineering culture that emphasizes Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Fluent in English, verbal and written communication

Pluses:

• Direct experience with CircleCi, Rollbar and Pagerduty
• Familiarity with full-stack development
• Familiarity with regulated software systems and entities
• AWS or other cloud certifications
• Multi Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• BS+ in Computer Science; coursework in genetics or bioinformatics

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For more information or to make an accommodation request reach out to HR@helix.com.

Expected Interview Process:

1) Recruiter Screen 2) Manager Screen/Tech Screen 3) Onsite 4) Offer

Expected Pay For This Role:

There are 3 distinct parts to your Helix offer: 1) Base Salary 2) Annual Bonus 3) Equity

Expected Helix Base: 1,040,000 MXN - 1,357,100 MXN annually

The salary range above is our reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role across your region. Actual starting pay will be based on non-discriminatory job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about your specific work location salary range during the hiring process.

Aside from working alongside brilliant, dedicated, passionate, down-to-earth, curious, warm, and thoughtful people, we also provide great benefits through our employer of record.

Office Location:

Our office is located at the WeWork - Varsovia, Mexico City

• We gather intentionally in our office space once per week to work on things like pair programming/live collaboration, skillshare sessions, social segments, team lunches, and volunteering opportunities.

What To Expect During Your Onboarding Week:

We want to make sure your first week is spent learning the foundations. You will be invited to live orientation sessions and spend time with your hiring manager developing your individual roadmap to success. This experience will include sessions that cover your benefits, security & privacy training, an introduction to the OKR framework used at Helix and our communication tools and norms.

What To Expect During Your Onboarding Week:

We want to make sure your first week is spent learning the foundations. You will be invited to live orientation sessions and spend time with your hiring manager developing your individual roadmap to success. This experience will include sessions that cover your benefits, security & privacy training, an introduction to the OKR framework used at Helix and our communication tools and norms.

What To Expect During Your First 90 days:

First 30 days: you’ll spend time learning the Helix way, completing training and onboarding for your roles, and getting introduced to your team and relevant stakeholders. You’ll also gain a deeper understanding of our customers, our products, the impact we make in the lives of our communities, and how to thrive at Helix through participation in Helix U.

Day 30 - 60: you’ll spend time contributing to projects, deeply familiarizing yourself with team and company processes, and developing a deeper understanding of Helix’s products, services and capabilities.

Day 60 - 90: you’ll build your OKRs with your manager, start to take ownership of projects and initiatives on your team, and begin to demonstrate your impact on the Helix mission.

Helix is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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