Principal Software Engineer – Microscopy Data Management & Cloud Platform

About the role

We are looking for a hands-on Principal Software Engineer to design and implement a distributed scientific data platform for microscopy and life-science applications. The platform must support microscopy image data, metadata, search, transformation, storage, transfer and analysis workflows across instruments, user PCs, on-premise deployments and AWS cloud environments.

What you'll do

• Contribute to the design and development of a distributed data management platform for microscopy and scientific imaging workflows
• Design scalable storage, indexing, search, caching and high-throughput data-transfer mechanisms for large scientific datasets in hybrid edge/on-prem/cloud environments
• Design and implement robust backend interfaces (APIs, contracts, schemas) enabling interoperability across platforms (instrument control, image analysis, UI
• Design and implement reliable and resumable data transfer pipelines between instruments
• Develop high-performance data ingestion, streaming and transformation pipelines for large image datasets and metadata

What you need

• 10–18 yrs of experience
• Python
• AWS
• gRPC
• C#
• TCP/IP
• ETL
• M.Sc

Good to have

• Machine learning
• C++
• Bash
• PowerShell
• Docker
• Kubernetes