Scientific Computer Engineer, Staff Cloud Infrastructure
Revolution Medicines
Summary
We are seeking a Staff Cloud Infrastructure / Scientific Computer Engineer to help build, operate, and improve the infrastructure foundations that support computational science, data engineering, analytics, and enterprise business operations across RevMed. This role will emphasize site reliability engineering, Kubernetes operations, observability, Databricks infrastructure, and cloud financial management (FinOps). This role will partner with scientific, G&A, data, security, and IT stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, scalable compute and platform services.
Job description
- Design, operate, and improve secure cloud infrastructure for R&D and scientific computing workloads.
- Build reusable infrastructure patterns for compute, storage, networking, identity, secrets management, and observability.
- Use Infrastructure as Code, primarily Terraform, to standardize provisioning and change management.
- Apply SRE practices to critical platform services, including service-level indicators and objectives, actionable alerting, incident response, post-incident reviews, and automation that reduces operational toil.
- Operate and improve Kubernetes environments, including cluster upgrades, workload deployment, resource allocation, autoscaling, networking, access controls, and troubleshooting.
- Develop observability across cloud, Kubernetes, and data platforms using metrics, logs, and traces to identify failures, diagnose performance issues, and understand capacity needs.
- Support high-throughput and scientific compute environments, including HPC and scheduler-based workloads.
- Enable reproducible compute patterns using Linux, containers, registries, and automated deployment workflows.
- Partner with data and ML teams on infrastructure for dataset staging, training workflows, batch inference, and platform reliability.
- Own the operational foundations of Databricks environments, including workspace provisioning, compute policies, networking, identity, secrets, governance integrations, monitoring, and infrastructure automation.
- Partner with data teams to improve Databricks workload reliability, compute utilization, performance, and cost through appropriate compute sizing, autoscaling, workload isolation, and lifecycle controls.
- Support data platform infrastructure for scientific, analytics, and G&A use cases, including secure access patterns, governance integrations, and scalable storage.
- Drive FinOps practices across cloud and Databricks services, including cost allocation and tagging, usage visibility, budgets, forecasting, anomaly detection, and optimization recommendations.
- Identify and implement cost improvements through rightsizing, idle-resource cleanup, storage lifecycle management, and appropriate purchasing commitments, while preserving workload reliability and performance.
- Improve operational practices such as monitoring, incident response, runbooks, capacity planning, recovery readiness, and service ownership.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with scientists, data engineers, security, and IT to deliver practical platform solutions.
- Mentor others and contribute to standards, documentation, and reusable patterns for cloud operations, reliability engineering, and scientific infrastructure.
Requirements
- B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, systems engineering, DevOps/SRE, scientific computing, or related technical roles.
- Strong experience operating production infrastructure in AWS, Azure, or another major cloud platform.
- Strong experience with Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Practical experience with Linux, networking fundamentals, system troubleshooting, and operational support.
- Experience with CI/CD, version control, peer review, testing, and change management practices.
- Experience supporting containerized workloads using Docker or similar technologies, including hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production.
- Experience implementing observability and reliability practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident management, and systematic troubleshooting of distributed services.
- Experience operating Databricks or comparable managed data platforms, with an understanding of compute, networking, identity, governance, and operational support.
- Experience analyzing cloud usage and expenditure and implementing cost optimization measures with measurable results.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex technical problems and collaborate across teams.
Benefits
- Competitive cash compensation
- Equity awards
- Health benefits
- Learning and development opportunities
Company overview
Revolution Medicines is a clinical-stage precision oncology company focused on developing novel targeted therapies for RAS-addicted cancers. The company is pioneering a new class of therapeutics that target oncogenic RAS mutations, which are among the most common drivers of human cancers. Revolution Medicines employs a unique approach to drug discovery, leveraging deep insights into RAS biology to develop small molecule inhibitors that can address previously undruggable targets. Their pipeline includes multiple clinical-stage candidates designed to inhibit various RAS pathway mutations, with a particular focus on KRAS G12C and other RAS variants. The company's scientific platform combines structural biology, medicinal chemistry, and computational approaches to design highly selective inhibitors. Revolution Medicines aims to transform cancer treatment by developing therapies that can overcome resistance mechanisms and provide durable clinical benefits for patients with RAS-driven malignancies. Their research represents a significant advancement in the field of targeted cancer therapy, addressing one of the most challenging areas in oncology drug development.