Data engineering at Rune Labs

• Applicants of all experience levels, backgrounds, and identities welcome. Don’t be shy!
• A position on our backend engineering team, where your coding and architecture efforts will focus on our data ingestion pipeline. Please note that this is not a data science position (though you will get to work with models and algorithms).
• Opportunity to work with one-of-a-kind data streaming directly from implants inside the human brain, as well as other timeseries biomarkers never before collected and analyzed together.
• Challenging work building a platform of efficient, high-throughput, streaming parsers for datasets, and piping them into our distributed timeseries database cluster. Great opportunities for growth in schema-less and schema-full database designs, scalable distributed cloud architectures, dynamic access policies, massive parallelism, and query planning.
• Step up to make an impact where it matters. Your work will directly support telemedicine, scientific research, and clinical development of new therapies for Parkinson’s Disease, OCD, chronic pain, major depressive disorder, epilepsy, and other neurological conditions afflicting millions of people.
• An environment that has kept up with technical debt from day one, and works hard to keep it that way. Our infrastructure is fully automated and our stack instrumented with observability, CI, CD, strong security practices, and a team experienced enough to know why those always matter.
• Work with the smartest and kindest folks in software engineering, neuroscience, and business development.
• Be part of a culture of explicit ethical consideration to both ourselves and the patients whose data we are entrusted with.
• Full health coverage and benefits for yourself and dependents. Also all the free t-shirts you can wear.
• (moot point these days, but…) Pet-friendly office in SF full of inquisitive pups, literally across the street from Golden Gate park and amazing food all around.

About you

• Familiarity with one of the following:
  • any scripting and/or interpreted programming language (we use Python)
  • any compiled and/or strongly-typed programming language (we use Golang)
• Direct experience working on one of the following:
  • processing large datasets iteratively with constant memory footprint
  • reliable queue-driven job processing
  • high-cardinality timeseries data
  • batch ETL on top of a data lake (e.g. S3)
  • flexible and optimized database design to support open-ended data science or data analysis
• Strong belief in automated unit, integration, and performance testing
• You understand why monitoring your features and services in production is not someone else’s job.
• Your code is well commented, well structured, readable, and maintainable by another human being. You have a strong sense of ownership, but don’t growl anytime someone comes near your code.
• You have a scientific and open mindset: you clearly define the problem at hand, form a hypothesis, and test it to find the best solution. Can smell unfounded opinion a mile away.
• You are honest, speak your mind, and take the time to explain your thoughts and opinions without being cruel, dismissive, condescending, or patronizing.

More
Visit our site to MEET THE TEAM (http://runelabs.io/team/) and learn about OUR VALUES (https://runelabs.io/values/).

At Rune Labs, your work will directly forward the development of therapies and treatments of Parkinson’s Disease, OCD, Depression, Alzheimers, and other neurological conditions.

Rune Labs is a software and data platform that powers the important neuromodulation therapies of the future. We are working directly with both hardware manufacturers and well-known neuroscientists in the field of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to collect, process, and analyze signals recorded from implants inside the human brain and make them useful for therapy development and delivery.

As one of Rune’s first backend engineers, you will have the opportunity to work with data few people have seen before, and thousands of people rely on. Our mobile apps collect data broadcast directly from medical implants in the brain or on the spinal column, correlate it with biometrics from the Apple Watch and other wearables and sensors, and stream it to our cloud platform. You’ll store, index, process, and analyze that data on behalf of leading neuroscience clinical research groups in UCSF, Duke, Brown, Stanford, and University of Washington (to name a few). There’s even more, but we won’t spoil it.

If you believe in instrumenting great cloud architectures, championing test-driven development, using the best tools for the job, keeping your code DRY, and cringe at the word “technical debt”, then please apply!

Please click here to apply.