Senior/Lead Bioinformatics Engineer

Natera • United States, United States • Posted July 01, 2026

About the Role

Natera is seeking a Senior/Lead Bioinformatics Engineer to join the Bioinformatics Research team focused on Epigenomics in Oncology. Natera’s mission is to transform disease management worldwide by leveraging information from a simple blood draw to enable early detection and guide treatment decisions.

This role will provide technical leadership in the design, development, and maintenance of large-scale, production-grade bioinformatics pipelines, with a strong emphasis on workflow orchestration using Nextflow and WDL. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on experience building, optimizing, and operating NGS pipelines in cloud environments, and is comfortable bridging research and production engineering.


PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:


  • Architect, develop, and maintain scalable, production-ready bioinformatics pipelines for next-generation sequencing data, with primary ownership of workflows implemented in Nextflow and WDL




  • Lea...