Senior Software Developer (VDB)

Job description

Overview Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Senior Software Developer (VDB) to support National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) . This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD. The Senior Software Developer will work on solutions to support continued development of NCBI’s Sequence Read Archive (SRA) – the world premier archive of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data and is a part of international collaboration that includes archives in Europe and Japan. SRA makes biological sequence data derived from NGS available to the research community to enhance reproducibility and allow for new discoveries by analyzing and comparing data sets. SRA is a BigData archive measured in tens of petabytes of stored data. The future development of SRA will make this data more useful for wide variety fields: Medical Health (genetic diseases, cancer, etc.), Public Health (food safety monitoring, antimicrobial resistance, viral outbreaks, etc.), microbial diversity, and many more. The VDB team is responsible for developing and maintaining the database layer of SRA and a set of client-side tools that provide access to the SRA data for members of the resear...