Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Software Engineer

Oxford Nanopore Technologies  •  Oxford, GB (Onsite)  •  4 months ago
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Job Description

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Operational Software Engineering team. As part of a cross-functional team supporting ONT’s Bioinformatics, R&D and Sequencing QC operations, you will play a key role in building and improving the infrastructure and deployment processes that underpin our systems. This role requires strong technical expertise in Python, cloud platforms, CI/CD automation, and containerised environments, with a focus on delivering secure, scalable, and reliable systems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Application & Service Development
    • Develop and maintain Python and React web applications and API services.
    • Contribute through GitLab merge requests, ensuring clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
    • Collaboratively enhance code quality through peer reviews and adherence to coding standards.
  • Deployment Automation & Cloud Infrastructure
    • Drive the migration of applications from VMware to cloud using Terraform, Kubernetes and related tools.
    • Administer and optimise AWS services through Infrastructure as Code principles.
    • Apply software and platform security standards.
  • Database Management
    • Maintain and improve PostgreSQL database resilience and security
  • Operational Support & Continuous Improvement
    • Provide second-line support for production systems, working directly with internal users to resolve issues.
    • Drive efficiency improvements by improving observability through metrics and dashboards.
    • Improve team documentation, processes, and working practices to raise delivery standards.


Desired Skills and Experience
In addition to the skills referenced above, we are looking for experience of

  • AWS cloud including RDS, S3, EFS, IAM, and VPC networking/security groups.
  • Warehousing application data.
  • Distributed task queueing systems and/or HPC batch scheduling systems - e.g. Celery + Redis, GridEngine
  • Workflow orchestration, ideally in a bioinformatics context.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies

About Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Our goal is to enable the analysis of anything, anywhere, by anyone.

We have developed the world’s first and only nanopore DNA and RNA sequencing platform. It’s a new generation of sequencing technology — the only one to offer: scalability to portable or ultra-high throughput formats, real-time data delivery, and the ability to elucidate rich biological data.

We are aiming to disrupt the way that biological analyses are currently performed, and open up new applications that have a profound, positive impact on society.

Our devices offer real-time analysis, for rapid insights, in fully scalable formats — from pocket to population scale — and the technology is being used in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, the company now employs more than 600 people from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.

Industry
Biotech & Life Sciences
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Oxford, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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