Job brief: Senior Systems Engineer, IVD Software

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• Listed on Veracyte's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
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• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $183,000 to $225,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: South San Francisco, California, United States · South San Francisco
• Posted: 2026-06-12 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• A minimum of 6 – 7 years of experience supporting commercial product software.
• Experience maintaining a distributed product for 2–3 years across 100+ enterprise customer installations.
• We are thrilled to be recognized as a 2024 Certified™ Great Place to Work ® in both the US and Israel - a testament to our dynamic, inclusive, and inspiring workplace where passio…

Conditions

• This role is focused exclusively on customer-facing product systems, not internal enterprise IT, and requires deep expertise in Windows-based platforms, distributed systems, and h…

Main duties

• Own and evolve the system-level architecture of a Windows-based IVD software product deployed to customer environments.
• Act as a system-level technical authority, influencing architecture and design decisions without formal people management.
• Design, configure, and support product deployments using IIS, SQL Server, WSL, and Docker across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud environments.
• Anticipate, identify, and mitigate environment-specific risks across Windows and Linux systems, virtual machines, containers, networking, and cloud infrastru…
• Support and stabilize a distributed product maintained over multiple years across a large enterprise install base (100+ customer installations).

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in South San Francisco, CA: $178k a year (10 listings, 2 employers). This listing is 14% higher.
• Across Veracyte's 17 open listings, 24% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Veracyte hires

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