Senior Engineer, Unified Compute

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Unified Compute team, you will own the backend layer that makes compute provisioning, usage tracking, and billing reliable and scalable across multi-cloud and on-prem environments. You’ll shape architecture, data models, and APIs to support configurable, pay-as-you-go compute for scientists. You’ll collaborate with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to deliver a seamless, customer-centric platform experience.

This role offers ownership end-to-end and a clear impact on how researchers run workloads and understand costs.

• 23 days vacation per year
• equity
• private health insurance
• private life insurance
• home office allowance
• learning and development budget (1,000 USD)

• Own integration between Seqera Intelligent Compute and the Seqera Platform
• Manage compute environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, HPC schedulers and GPU workloads
• Integrate with cloud provider APIs, handling partial failures and quota issues
• Own billing and pay-as-you-go path, ensuring accurate metering and invoicing
• Design data models and APIs that stay consistent across services and releases
• Improve error visibility and add tests/observability for faster incident diagnosis
• Collaborate with Platform, product, and support teams; document systems for sustainability
• Take design decisions within scope and ensure knowledge is documented

• 4+ years building and operating production backend services with ownership of at least one
• Strong in Java and/or Groovy, with Micronaut, Spring Boot or similar
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider API for provisioning resources
• Experience with Kubernetes workloads
• Commitment to data correctness and potentially billing/meters systems
• Experience designing REST APIs and data models, handling versioned integrations
• Accountability for a customer-facing production system
• Ability to operate with ambiguity and drive work independently
• Willingness to use AI as part of engineering practices

• ownership
• problem-solving under ambiguity
• collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Java
• Groovy
• Micronaut