About us

Owkin is an agentic AI company on a mission to explore complex biology to speed up and scale research for the creation of new treatments and diagnostics for patients. Owkin K, our AI co-pilot combines unparalleled access to multimodal data, cutting-edge AI to understand biology and pioneering agentic AI to achieve Biological Artificial Superintelligence in the future.

Owkin is comprised of a group of specialized companies that work seamlessly together, combining deep expertise with a shared mission to accelerate biological discovery. Owkin K is the technology foundation of our ecosystem, it provides cutting-edge co-pilots incorporating high-quality data infrastructure and AI tools to power breakthroughs for researchers, customers and our companies.

Owkin has raised over $300 million through investments from leading biopharma companies, including Sanofi and BMS, and venture funds like Fidelity, GV and Bpifrance, among others.Owkin is seeking the best and brightest to join our fast-growing and dynamic team.

About the role:

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer in the Data Infrastructure team at Owkin, you will be at the heart of our mission to accelerate data-driven biomedical discoveries at scale. You will contribute to building and maintaining scalable data management and processing systems on AWS that handle complex datasets throughout their lifecycle, while maintaining the highest standards of privacy, security and compliance.

In particular, you will:

Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and services on AWS at the intersection of data engineering and AI tools
Contribute to the design and evolution of our data architecture to support large-scale data processing while ensuring granular data access controls and security compliance
Collaborate with data engineers, researchers and data scientists to understand their needs and implement solutions that enhance their productivity
Support and improve our CI/CD pipelines, development workflows, and security practices
Participate in incident response to ensure high availability and reliability
Contribute to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data

Impact on stakeholders:

Data Engineers: Working in the same engineering group, you will collaborate closely with them to provide powerful data services and tools, for example Airflow deployment and cloud data management optimizations
Bioinformaticians, data scientists and researchers: you will help create a user-friendly environment that accelerates their work through streamlined data access, efficient processing, and seamless project collaboration
Owkin partners: you will strengthen Owkin's data network with academic partners by enabling them to share their data securely and easily

This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud computing, data engineering and software engineering.

Position is based in our Paris or Nantes offices or remotely in France.

About you

More than a list of requirements, we are looking for a skilled individual with a “can do” mindset, able to mobilize their experience to deliver value as part of a team. Autonomy in learning and delivering is valued as much as being able to embrace the culture and processes.

Required qualifications / experience:

Significant experience (>7 years) as software engineer contributing on cloud infrastructure: this is an senior level position
Experience with either python or golang
Management of AWS infrastructure as code, using terraform
Strong experience in Docker
Experience in architectural design of complex systems, especially for complex data at scale
Demonstrated attention to quality and software engineering processes, including observability and security: we run what we build
Full professional proficiency in English: our team is distributed across Europe

Preferred qualifications/bonus:

Familiarity with Kubernetes
Experience in Data Engineering
Experience with MLOps practices
Frontend skills
Knowledge in healthcare or biomedical domains

Please submit your CV in English

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What we offer

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

Recruitment Process & Security

Please complete the form and submit your CV.
Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.
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Senior Backend Software Engineer