Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and services at the intersection of agentic AI and petabytes of multimodal patient data
• ▹Own specific critical platform components end-to-end
• ▹Drive technical standards, architectural reviews, and best practices across the engineering department
• ▹Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
• ▹Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, researchers, and data scientists
• ▹Support and improve CI/CD pipelines, development workflows, and security practices
• ▹Participate in incident response to ensure high availability and reliability
• ▹Improve observability and resiliency of the stack, and take part in a shared on-call rotation

Requirements

• ▹Significant experience (typically 7+ years) as a software engineer, with technical leadership in designing and operating critical cloud infrastructure at scale
• ▹Experience with either Python or Go
• ▹Strong experience with Docker
• ▹Experience using AI tools (e.g. Claude Code) to improve software engineering efficiency
• ▹Management of cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform and Kubernetes on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• ▹Experience in architectural design of complex systems, especially for data at scale
• ▹Demonstrated attention to quality, observability, and security in software engineering processes
• ▹Full professional proficiency in English and comfort with async communication across a team distributed over Europe

Nice to have

• ▹Familiarity with scientific or biomedical use cases
• ▹Experience in AI and agentic AI applications
• ▹Experience in data engineering
• ▹Experience with MLOps practices
• ▹Frontend skills
• ▹Knowledge of healthcare or biomedical domains

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Flexible work organization
• ▹Friendly and informal working environment
• ▹International team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

About the company

Owkin is an agentic AI company building K Pro, an AI scientist for pharmaceutical research and strategic decision-making, powered by an unrivalled multimodal patient data network, state-of-the-art AI for biology, and a decade of experience working with pharmaceutical partners.