Platform Engineer I - Seattle, United States - GlaxoSmithKline

Description

Site Name: USA - California - San Francisco, Seattle Sixth Ave
Posted Date: Mar

The Onyx Research Data Platform organization represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines. We are a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps, data/metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:

• Building a next-generation data experience for GSK's scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on "data mechanics"
• Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent
• Aggressively engineering our data at scale to unlock the value of our combined data assets and predictions in real-time.

Join our data platform team at the forefront of innovation in data science and cloud technology. Play a key role in building new tools and systems that make our data smarter and our team more efficient. This is your chance to help us advance modern medicine while sharpening your tech skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in the creation and improvement of APIs, learning how to meet the technical needs of our colleagues and partners.
• Work alongside senior engineers to integrate APIs with various systems, contributing to the smooth flow of data across our platforms.
• Learn to write high-quality code with a focus on automation and best practices.
• Assist in identifying opportunities to streamline our codebase through reusable components.
• Support the team with ongoing projects and contribute to team discussions on how to tackle technical challenges.
• Help maintain our high standards for platform functionality, including monitoring and quality assurance.
• Stay curious and up-to-date with the latest technologies and practices in API development and cloud services.
• Engage in peer code reviews and collaborate in a continuous learning environment.

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related discipline
• Cloud experience (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes), including infrastructure-as-code.
• Application experience of CI/CD implementations using git and a common CI/CD stack (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, Azure DevOps).
• Experience with one common programming language: e.g., Python, Scala, Java.
• Experience in API tools and platforms, such as Postman.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have some of the following characteristics, it would be a plus

• Master's in computer science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• Experience with data modeling, particularly involving the use of semantic data and ontologies/taxonomies/business data.
• Experience architecting, building, or managing components of an ontology or/and metadata platform.

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The annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $98,600 to $133,400 taking into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate's skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.The annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $98,600 to $133,400 taking into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate's skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.
Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary t o learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We're committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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