# Site Reliability Engineer at Watershed Informatics

> Onsite · United States · Unspecified · DevOps / SRE / Infra · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Awatershed%3A6019484003 (read 2026-11-09).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Watershed Informatics](https://alderhq.app/companies/watershed-informatics)
- Location text: Cambridge, MA; Main Office
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Onsite · United States (evidence: "Location: Cambridge, MA; Main Office")
- Posted: 2024-06-27 (865 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-07 · last verified: 2026-11-07
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://boards.greenhouse.io/watershed/jobs/6019484003?gh_jid=6019484003

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (Boston, n 8): p25 $137k, median $145k, p75 $156k

## Description (the employer's text)

### About Watershed

Our vision is to become the leading biocomputing platform. The future of biology is in big data analysis, and we are on a mission to accelerate digital drug discovery with the Watershed platform. Watershed enables scientists to conduct all essential analysis — from lab data to plot — with a single software platform.

We have attracted some of the best bioinformatics, engineering, and commercial talent, and we are growing! Join a team that’s intellectually curious with a bias for action, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, composed of people who have come together to enable outcomes while empowering the research of all those committed to changing lives — all while bringing transformational change to a $40 billion industry.

### Role

Linux Systems Engineers at Watershed engineer infrastructure to meet the high-performance computing needs of modern biology. Designing systems that keep pace with the explosive growth in the kinds and size of biological data, you will work in a highly-customized bare metal environment where our biocomputing platform and analyses run at scale. You will be tasked with engineering a new cloud experience while enabling our technology evolution in a disciplined way.

### Responsibilities

- Build, manage, and deploy a large fleet of Linux servers
- Research new technologies and solutions, implement them or build better
- Be the connection between hardware and software
- Monitor system performance and manage capacity.
- Fix and analyze technical incidents, solve ad hoc technical problems.
### Qualifications

- Experience composing infrastructure-as-code for a modern environment
- Demonstrate a software developer mindset, building tools when necessary
- Knowledge of virtualization, networking, and Linux Kernel internals
- Ability to clearly communicate your thoughts, ask the right questions, and defend your views
- Responsibility and ownership over your domain.

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