Data Engineer

At Veracyte, we offer exciting career opportunities for those interested in joining a pioneering team that is committed to transforming cancer care for patients across the globe. Working at Veracyte enables our employees to not only make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients, but to also learn and grow within a purpose driven environment. This is what we call the Veracyte way – it's about how we work together, guided by our values, to give clinicians the insights they need to help patients make life-changing decisions.

Our Values:

We Seek A Better Way: We innovate boldly, learn from our setbacks, and are resilient in our pursuit to transform cancer care
We Make It Happen: We act with urgency, commit to quality, and bring fun to our hard work
We Are Stronger Together: We collaborate openly, seek to understand, and celebrate our wins
We Care Deeply: We embrace our differences, do the right thing, and encourage each other

The Position

Veracyte is revolutionizing cancer diagnostics through advanced genomic technologies and data-driven innovation. Our Israel team plays a crucial role in developing scalable infrastructure to support AI-enabled insights across research and clinical applications.

We're seeking a skilled Data Engineer to develop robust, scalable data infrastructure and integrate cutting-edge AI and agent-based technologies into our genomic data processes. You'll be a core contributor in designing and implementing cloud-based data pipelines, while embedding AI models and intelligent agent frameworks into our analytic workflows.

This role blends engineering excellence with innovation. You'll collaborate closely with R&D, and data science teams to deliver high-quality, cloud-native analytics platforms that accelerate research and clinical impact.

Key Responsibilities

Design and build cloud-native data pipelines (AWS) for large-scale genomic analytics
Integrate AI/ML models, agent-based tools, and MCP protocols into data workflows
Automate and optimize CI/CD processes for research and production environments
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement robust data architectures
Develop tools for data ingestion, transformation, and quality monitoring
Ensure data integrity, reproducibility, and compliance with regulatory standards

Who You Are:

4+ years in data engineering or backend software engineering
Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent
Technologically diverse background and ability/willingness to learn new things quickly
Strong Python, SQL and Bash scripting skills
Hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Sagemaker)
Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration
Experience with Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration and scheduling
Experience building CI/CD pipelines
Understanding of MCP (Model Context Protocol) and its role in AI system design
Knowledge of data lake architecture, structured/unstructured data handling
Familiarity with machine learning pipelines or MLOps frameworks
Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and building ELT/ETL pipelines

Preferred Skills

Background in biotech, healthcare, or regulated industries
Experience with Apache Spark or distributed data processing
Proven track record in deploying AI systems in production

Why Join Us

Mission-driven impact: Your work directly contributes to saving lives
Forward-thinking team: Collaborate with experts in AI, genomics, and data engineering
Cutting-edge stack: Work with the latest tools to bring AI into data-centric infrastructure

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What We Can Offer You

Veracyte is a growing company that offers significant career opportunities if you are curious, driven, patient-oriented and aspire to help us build a great company. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, and are committed to fostering an inclusive workforce, where diverse backgrounds are represented, engaged, and empowered to drive innovative ideas and decisions. We are thrilled to be recognized as a 2024 Certified™ Great Place to Work® in both the US and Israel - a testament to our dynamic, inclusive, and inspiring workplace where passion meets purpose.

About Veracyte

Veracyte (Nasdaq: VCYT) is a global genomic diagnostics company that improves patient care by providing answers to clinical questions, informing diagnosis and treatment decisions throughout the patient journey in cancer and other diseases. The company's growing menu of genomic tests leverage advances in genomic science and technology, enabling patients to avoid risky, costly diagnostic procedures and quicken time to appropriate treatment. The company's tests in lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, bladder cancer and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are available to patients and its lymphoma subtyping and renal cancer tests are in development. With Veracyte's exclusive global license to a best-in-class diagnostics instrument platform, the company is positioned to deliver its tests to patients worldwide. Veracyte is based in South San Francisco, California. For more information, please visit www.veracyte.com and follow the company on X (Formerly Twitter).

Veracyte, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability status. Veracyte participates in E-Verify in the United States. View our CCPA Disclosure Notice.

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