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# Staff Cloud Engineer at Cellanome

- **Company:** Cellanome
- **Location:** Foster City, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cellanome/jobs/4716454006

## Job description

We’re a well-funded start-up. You’ll get a chance to wear many hats, be a part of a growing team, and have the potential for exciting financial and career growth.

Here’s what sets us apart. We’ve set our sights on some of the biggest challenges facing biology today. We’re amassing a world class team of engineers, scientists, team builders and problem solvers to tackle these challenges heads-on. We’re passionate about developing the next generation technologies that will unravel the complexities of biology.

This is a unique opportunity to build, be part of an exciting start-up and be surrounded by good humans who are super capable, humble and down-to- earth.

Reporting into the Sr. Director of Cloud, your role will bring Cellanome’s revolutionary technology to life by designing, developing, and deploying our cloud platform capabilities and tools. As the Staff Cloud Engineer you'll shape how our team builds with AI coding agents, setting the patterns, guardrails, and review standards that let a small team ship at the pace of a much larger one. This is an in-office role and can be based at our Foster City or San Diego site.

Essential Duties:

- Partner closely with the Computational Biology team to translate scientific workflows into scalable cloud-based solutions.
- Understand client needs, objectives, and challenges to provide tailored solutions and recommendations.
- Collaborate with internal teams (e.g., R&D, product development, regulatory, and marketing) to align solutions with client goals and timelines.
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud software systems, leveraging AWS, TypeScript, and AI-assisted development tools.
- Lead the team’s adoption of AI coding agents: define workflows, guardrails, and review standards so that AI-generated code meets our bar for quality, security, and compliance.
- Serve as a key reviewer of designs and code changes, including AI-generated changes, holding a high bar for correctness, security, and maintainability.
- Optimize data pipelines, storage, and computational workflows for performance, cost, and reliability.
- Develop and document APIs and interfaces to enable seamless integration between tools and technologies.
- Monitor and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and security.
- Stay current with advancements in cloud technologies, AI-assisted development, and computational biology tools to drive innovation.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent work experience.
- In depth experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
- Strong test-driven API development using TypeScript. Ability to use tests and clear specifications to guide and verify AI-generated code.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants or agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) in professional software development, with sound judgment on when to trust, verify, or reject their output.
- Proven ability to lead design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling).
- Experience building cloud technology using AWS. Familiarity with other cloud provider technologies (e.g. Azure and GCP) preferred.
- Experience with large scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, and/or debugging.
- Ability to work in a startup environment at various stages of growth.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot problems and develop effective solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Early-stage company experience.
- Previous experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience building LLM-powered features or agent integrations (e.g., tool-calling APIs, MCP servers) into products or internal tooling.
- Pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience.
- Experience as an end-user of related instrumentation.

We provide competitive total compensation packages, including base pay, benefits, and equity. In California, the estimated base salary range for this position is $170,000 - $200,000/year. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. What you can expect from us:

You’ll feel the energy when you walk in our door – we work hard, we have fun and we have ambitious plans to grow. Cellanome offers a comprehensive employment package that includes a competitive salary, generous stock options, great individual, and family health plans, a 401(k) and flexibility to balance work and life.

We embrace and celebrate the diversity of our employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

## About Cellanome

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cellanome is a biotechnology company developing a live-cell analysis platform that integrates time-lapse imaging with single-cell transcriptomics to reveal how cells evolve, interact, and respond over time.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Foster City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Mostafa Ronaghi (Co-founder, Executive Board Member), Rowan Chapman (Co-founder, Executive Board Member)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Biotechnology Research, Life Science Tools, Drug Discovery
- Target customers: B2B; academic research labs, biopharma R&D departments, and contract research organizations (CROs)
- Mission or purpose statement: “Enabling scientists to discover what’s happening inside an individual cell and how it interacts with other cells — fundamental to detecting diseases early, developing more precise treatments, and transforming health outcomes.” [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/careers)

## Products & Services
- **Cellanome R3200 Platform**: A fully integrated system combining instrumentation, consumables, and software for live-cell analysis. The platform uses proprietary **CellCage™ technology** — biocompatible, tunable microenvironments created via micro-3D printing that allow for culturing, perturbation, time-lapse imaging, and downstream single-cell transcriptomics in a unified workflow. [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/)
- **Applications**: Supports research in oncology (tumor-immune interactions), immunology, neuroscience (neuron growth, synapse formation), aging & metabolic disease (cellular senescence), and more. Generates AI-ready, structured multimodal datasets linking morphology, function, and molecular profiles. [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$213.7M** across 4 rounds [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cellanome)
- **Funding History**:
  - Seed Round (Oct 2021): $2.0M
  - Series A (Dec 2021): $21.0M
  - Series A (Aug 2022): $40.7M
  - Series B (Jan 2024): **$150.0M** (2 investors) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cellanome)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by “top-tier investors.” Chairman of the Board includes **Jay Flatley** (former CEO of Illumina). Board also includes **Omead Ostadan** (CEO), Mostafa Ronaghi, Rowan Chapman. [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/company)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - **Headcount**: 96 employees (+668.8% YoY growth) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cellanome)
  - **LinkedIn Followers**: 5,711 (+154.8% yearly) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cellanome)
  - Active job postings: 6 (up +100% yearly) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cellanome)
  - Offices in Foster City (HQ), San Diego, and Redwood City, CA; additional presence in Singapore, South Korea, and the UK. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cellanome)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary CellCage™ Technology**: A unique micro-3D printed biocompatible enclosure that keeps cells alive and intact, enabling dynamic observation (time-lapse imaging) followed by single-cell molecular profiling — unlike traditional methods that destroy cells for analysis. [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/)
- **AI-Ready Multimodal Data**: The platform generates structured, longitudinal datasets that link cellular behavior/morphology to transcriptomics, specifically designed to power AI/ML-driven discovery in biology and drug development. [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/)
- **Founding Team & Board**: Led by veterans from Illumina (Jay Flatley, Mostafa Ronaghi) and other life science powerhouses, providing deep industry expertise and credibility. [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/company)
- **Massively Parallel Scale**: Enables studies from single cells to complex ensembles at high resolution, addressing a critical gap in current static analysis tools. [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Commercialization**: Actively expanding research, engineering, and commercial teams to bring the R3200 platform to market and partner with leading academic labs and biopharma companies. [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/careers)
- **Data Infrastructure for Biology**: Building the foundational data layer (“data infrastructure that biology has been missing”) to enable a new era of precision medicine and AI-driven therapeutic development. [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/company)
- **Key Research Verticals**: Deepening applications in oncology, immunology, neuroscience, and aging/metabolic disease. [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “smart, humble, and kind” — a team that is “serious about science and about building a workplace where people feel connected, supported, and inspired.” Emphasis on collaboration, curiosity, and groundbreaking science. [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/careers)
- **Work Environment**: Monthly company meetings, socials, and employee-led interest groups. “We work hard and have fun.” [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/careers)
- **Growth**: Hands-on learning and meaningful opportunities to take on new challenges. Rapidly growing company (+668% headcount YoY) offers significant career development potential. [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/careers)
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive salary, attractive equity, comprehensive health plans (individual & family), 401(k) plan, and flexibility to balance work and life. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cellanome)
- **Locations**: HQ in Foster City, CA; labs/offices in San Diego and Redwood City, CA. Hybrid/office roles likely given lab-based nature of many positions. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cellanome)
- **Engineering Culture**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge problems at the intersection of biology, micro-engineering, optics, and AI/ML. Actively hiring a Machine Learning Engineer and Computational Biologist. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cellanome)

## Sources
1. [cellanome.com](https://www.cellanome.com/)
2. [cellanome.com - Company](https://www.cellanome.com/company)
3. [cellanome.com - Careers](https://www.cellanome.com/careers)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io - Cellanome](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cellanome)
5. [LinkedIn - Cellanome](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cellanome)

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