Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) is an exciting startup revolutionizing infectious disease diagnostics by leveraging cutting-edge sample prep technologies, whole genome sequencing and machine learning. We are building the next generation of IVDs able to perform comprehensive bacterial species ID and antimicrobial resistance and susceptibility (AMR/S) profiling in less than 8 hours of sample receipt, without the need for culture.
Our first application is for Sepsis. Sepsis is responsible for about a third of hospital deaths and costs hospitals in the US about $24B annually. Using the current culture-based approach for pathogen ID and AST that takes 2-5 days and has a 40% failure rate, patients with Sepsis are treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics, leading to significant toxicity, higher rates of organ injury, increased risk of c. difficile infection, and contributing to the growth of the antibiotic resistance problem globally.
By providing an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis within the first cycle of treatment, patients can get appropriate antibiotic therapy for systemic infections, such as sepsis, reducing hospital treatment durations and costs while positively impacting patient outcomes.
At DZD, we are passionate about our mission of modernizing infectious diseases diagnosis and treatment. Employees gain experience in a multidisciplinary and fast-paced start-up and have ample opportunities to acquire new skills, engage with emerging technologies, work closely with our accomplished team, and communicate their results, all while working in a supportive and energetic environment.
Summary
Note: This role is a hybrid position based in MA.
As a part of a small engineering team, this Infrastructure Engineer role will be given a significant opportunity to contribute to the technical direction and culture of infrastructure engineering at DZD. You will work closely with software engineering and computational team members to design, develop, and codify secure, compliant cloud systems to support high throughput analysis of whole genome sequencing data. We prioritize interest, excitement, and communication and are open to an experienced software engineer keen to dive deep into the platform and infrastructure side of development.
Primary Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting R&D and production systems.
- Architect, implement, and maintain the core cloud infrastructure used by DZD engineering systems.
- Work with internal stakeholders from our sample preparation, sequencing, computational biology, data science, machine learning, and product engineering teams to develop our infrastructure and platform roadmap.
- Work with the software and product engineering teams, along with external partners, to design infrastructure that adheres to company regulatory policies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 2-4 years of software development experience
- Strong understanding of the managed services provided by GCP or AWS and design of engineering ecosystems that appropriately take advantage of those services.
- Exposure to infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, or another infrastructure as code solution.
- Experience working with Kubernetes on GCP or AWS.
- Experience developing continuous integration and deployment infrastructure for rapid iteration.
- Experience using Python, Bash or PowerShell for coding, scripting, and/or automation.
- Experience designing HIPAA-compliant and heavily regulated infrastructure helpful, but not required
- A high degree of self-motivation and interest in working with a high level of ownership and responsibility.