Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure at the intersection of agentic AI and petabytes of multimodal patient data
• ▹Own critical platform components end-to-end
• ▹Drive technical standards, architectural reviews, and best practices across engineering
• ▹Mentor junior/mid-level engineers
• ▹Contribute to the design and evolution of product architecture
• ▹Support and improve CI/CD pipelines, development workflows, and security practices
• ▹Participate in incident response to ensure high availability
• ▹Contribute to maintaining confidentiality, integrity and availability of data (security by design)
• ▹Improve the modularity and performance of the solution
• ▹Participate in a team-wide shared on-call rotation

Requirements

• ▹Significant experience (typically 7+ years) as a software engineer, with technical leadership 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 engineering efficiency
• ▹Management of cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform and Kubernetes on AWS, Azure or GCP
• ▹Experience in architectural design of complex systems at scale
• ▹Demonstrated attention to quality and engineering processes, including observability and security
• ▹Full professional proficiency in English and async communication across a distributed European team

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 in healthcare or biomedical domains

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Flexible work organization
• ▹Friendly and informal working environment
• ▹Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

About the company

Owkin is an agentic AI company building Biological Artificial Superintelligence to solve biology problems human researchers alone have failed to crack. Owkin builds K Pro, an AI scientist for pharmaceutical research and strategic decision-making, built on Owkin's unrivalled multimodal patient data network, state-of-the-art AI for biology, and a decade of experience working with pharmaceutical partners.