Senior Cloud/Big Data Engineer

GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. GRAIL, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). For more information, please visit www.grail.com.

Are you passionate about unlocking the value of data to make an impact on the lives of patients? If so, join us in Software Engineering at GRAIL! We are looking for a Senior Cloud / Data Engineer to join our growing team to build out a data platform in support of GRAIL’s commercial products and research activities.

You will:
> - Be a part of a highly collaborative team that focuses on delivering value to our internal partners by providing secure access to data
> - Work cross-functionally to translate business needs into efficient, scalable, and easy to maintain data engineering solutions
> - Prototype, implement, scale, and maintain our cloud data platform as we continue to bring in new data sources
> - Develop batch and streaming data extraction pipelines
> - Contribute to the design and execution of a data governance framework
> - Grow together with the team as we meet the next set of business needs and technical challenges

Minimum Requirements:
> - B.S. / M.S. in a quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Computational Biology) with at least 5 years of related industry experience, or Ph.D. with at least 3 years of related industry experience
> - Substantial experience in architecting and delivering secure, scalable cloud-based data warehouses and data lakes on AWS, Azure, or GCP
> - Advanced knowledge in data warehousing architecture and concepts (ETL and ELT) and data modeling
> - Experience with relational databases, query authoring, and performance tuning
> - Solid object-oriented and/or functional programming experience
> - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

The following are highly welcome:
> - Experience with AWS and data migration
> - Experience with Golang and Python
> - Experience with DevOps, e.g. CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployment, infrastructure as code, Terraform
> - Experience with data pipelining and workflow engines, e.g. Apache Airflow, Cadence, Beam, Spark
> - Experience building microservices and web applications
> - Experience with supporting data science/machine learning data pipelines

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

GRAIL, Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries ("GRAIL") does not accept any liability for fees for resumes from recruiters or employment agencies (“Agency”), without a binding, written recruitment agreement between GRAIL and Agency describing the services and specific job openings (“Agreement”).  GRAIL may consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the Agency unless an Agreement is in place.  Any email or verbal contact with any person within GRAIL is inadequate to create a binding agreement.   Agencies without an Agreement are requested not to contact any hiring managers of GRAIL with recruiting inquiries or resumes.  Agencies interested in partnering with GRAIL may contact GRAIL's HR Department through our Customer Service team.
GRAIL is an Equal Employment Office and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Following extensive monitoring, research, consideration of business implications, and advice from internal and external experts, GRAIL has made the decision to require all U.S. employees receive the COVID-19 vaccines as a condition of employment. “Full vaccination” is defined as two weeks after both doses of a two-dose vaccine or two weeks since a single-dose vaccine has been administered. Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or disability that prevents them from being vaccinated, can request a reasonable accommodation.