Job Description
About Ancestry When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry, the global leader in family history, empowers journeys of personal discovery to enrich lives. With our unparalleled collection of more than 40 billion records, over 3 million subscribers and over 23 million people in our growing DNA network, customers can discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Over the past 40 years, we’ve built trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as the platform for discovering, preserving and sharing the most important information about themselves and their families.
We are committed to our location flexible work approach, allowing you to choose to work in the nearest office, from your home, or a hybrid of both (subject to location restrictions and roles that are required to be in the office- see the full list of eligible US locations HERE). We will continue to hire and promote beyond the boundaries of our office locations, to enable broadened possibilities for employee diversity.
Together, we work every day to foster a work environment that's inclusive as well as diverse, and where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products and services reflect the global and diverse clients we serve.
Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join the curious.
The DNA Science team at AncestryDNA has the privilege of enabling our customers to learn about themselves and their family history through DNA. We are a diverse team, all passionate about discovery, with access to a dataset unlike any other in the world. We drive innovation in our product and we indulge our curiosity. We are customer obsessed. We have a growth mindset. We think big. We know how to achieve big goals through a succession of quick wins, and we also create space for long-term or high-risk endeavors.
We are seeking a highly motivated Bioinformatics Engineer to join our team. Our ideal candidate will have a solid academic background or initial professional experience in bioinformatics, coupled with some experience in cloud computing.
As a Bioinformatics Engineer, you will contribute to the development and maintenance of bioinformatics pipelines, learn to support our AWS infrastructure, and help implement automated workflows to advance our scientific research initiatives.
What you’ll do.. - Collaborate with scientists to understand requirements and assist in the design, implementation, and maintenance of bioinformatics workflows and tools for analyzing large datasets.
- Automate existing science processes and collaborate with stakeholders to transition research and machine learning software into production environments.
- Work closely with other Bioinformatics engineers to support the building and maintenance of the scalable cloud environment used by Ancestry’s DNA Science team.
- Assist in managing AWS infrastructure to support scalable bioinformatics pipelines and advanced scientific computing workloads.
- Apply coding and software best practices to improve software quality.
- Participate in the enhancement of legacy codebases to improve efficiency, performance and maintainability.
Who you are.. - A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, or related field with 1- 3 years of relevant industry experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Demonstrated experience in building bioinformatics pipelines, ideally for analyzing large datasets.
- Proficiency in Python and a willingness to learn other relevant programming languages (e.g., Rust, C++).
- Exposure to cloud computing concepts (preferably AWS), with an interest in learning infrastructure management tools like AWS Batch and Parallel Cluster.
- Understanding of basic principles for deploying pipelines in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools like Nextflow or Snakemake.
- Experience using Conda for managing packages and environments.
- Experience with Git for version control. Exposure to or interest in CI/CD concepts is a plus.
- Basic understanding of infrastructure-as-code concepts and an interest in learning tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
Preferred Qualifications - Exposure to containerization technologies such as Docker, with an understanding of their benefits.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code concepts and some exposure to tools like Terraform.
- Experience utilizing cloud computing resources for scientific workloads, and an interest in distributed computing architectures.
Helping people discover their story is at the heart of ours. Ancestry is the largest provider of family history and personal DNA testing, harnessing a powerful combination of information, science and technology to help people discover their family history and stories that were never possible before. Ancestry’s suite of products includes: AncestryDNA, AncestryProGenealogists, Fold3, Newspapers.com, Find a Grave, Archives.com, and Rootsweb. We offer excellent benefits and a competitive compensation package. For additional information, regarding our benefits and career information, please visit our website at
As a signatory of the ParityPledge in Support of Women and the ParityPledge in Support of People of Color, Ancestry values pay transparency and pay equity. We are pleased to share the base salary range for this position: $83,160- $103,950 with eligibility for bonus, equity and comprehensive benefits including health, dental and vision. The actual salary will vary by geographic region and job experience. We will share detailed compensation data for a specific location during the recruiting process. Read more about our benefits HERE.
- Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20) and sb1162(1-1-23)
Additional Information Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For San Francisco office candidates, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means.
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