Senior Software Engineer, OS Ecosystem

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the OS Ecosystem team, you will act as a core technical contributor in building the foundational infrastructure that powers Tempus’ clinical, research, and AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Drive in-depth technical design of platform features for data modeling, schema versioning, and enforcing data contracts between producers and consumers, using cloud object storage and data warehousing technologies, ensuring alignment with functional and non-functional requirements.
• Implement, test, and support backend web services and data pipelines in TypeScript, and Python, serving as a standard-bearer for code quality and system reliability.
• Work closely with Product Managers to translate complex business requirements into technical designs, ensuring clear communication and alignment with business goals and users.
• Take operational responsibility for platform systems in production as part of the team's support rotation. Troubleshoot complex technical issues and proactively monitor systems to ensure reliability and performance optimization.
• Mentor other engineers on your team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and adoption of best practices in testing, documentation, and code review.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on platform or data engineering, distributed data systems, or backend web services.
• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Language Proficiency: Demonstrated success in writing production backend services in TypeScript, Python, or similar languages, with a willingness to work primarily in a Node.js and Python environment. Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles. Familiarity with relational database design and application-level operations, including schema migrations.
• Experience: Experience with Google Spanner is a plus. Experience in systems monitoring and operational responsibility for platform production systems, including internal user support and/or on-call duties. Experience working with cloud technologies (we use GCP) like GCS, BigQuery, and Cloud Spanner.

Pay

CHI: $110,000-$160,000

The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from Illinois and may vary for other locations (California, Colorado, New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience.