IT & Software

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Genomics

Oxford District · Oxfordshire · United Kingdom

Overview

As Staff Engineer, you own the reliability, performance, security and integrity of the analytical data platform that powers MystraAI. You set technical direction while line-managing a small team, blending deep hands-on work with strategic leadership. You will shape a secure, multi-tenant data foundation at petabyte scale and drive Data-as-a-Service as a product. This role sits at the intersection of large-scale infrastructure and meaningful science, offering a chance to impact drug discovery and preventive healthcare.

Pay / Benefits
  • competitive salary
  • clear career path
  • continuous learning
  • private health insurance for you and family
  • enhanced parental leave
  • hybrid working
Responsibilities
  • Architect and operate multi-tenant ClickHouse clusters at petabyte scale, optimizing sharding, replication, materialised views and query performance
  • Own SLOs, observability, capacity planning and incident response for data-intensive systems and pipelines
  • Shape Data-as-a-Service as a product with secure, immutable releases and scalable data discoverability
  • Power MystraAI by ensuring secure, tenant-scoped data access and collaborating with ML teams on performance
  • Embed security as a core architectural concern: isolation, secrets management and least-privilege access
  • Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and line-manage a small IC2/IC3 team
Key requirements
  • Extensive experience with large-scale OLAP and ClickHouse, including multi-tenant design and upstream code contributions
  • Strong reliability engineering discipline: SLOs, observability, capacity planning and incident response for data platforms
  • Experience productising data as a service: secure, multi-tenant, immutable releases and discoverability at scale
  • Ability to expose platform data to agents safely and at scale with guardrails and isolation
  • Security-by-design mindset: tenant isolation and robust secrets management
  • Technical leadership: able to drive direction, mentor engineers and lead a small team while staying hands-on
  • leadership
  • mentoring
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • Large-scale OLAP / ClickHouse
  • SRE for data platforms (SLOs, observability, incident response)
  • Data-as-a-Service productisation

Reference: WJ-747_30153452

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