Black Canyon Consulting

Account Backend Engineer

North America

Agile Authentication CI/CD C++ DevOps +16 skills

Backend engineer maintaining and modernizing NCBI's login and MyNCBI account systems (NIH/NLM): keeping legacy authentication services stable, integrating federated identity providers, and migrating to NIH ICAM. Core stack is C++, Python/Django, and SQL on Linux, with SAML/OAuth/OIDC/JWT and Microsoft SQL Server.

Computational Biologist (SRA Bioinformatics)

Agile AWS Big Data Bioinformatics CI/CD +10 skills

Overview Black Canyon Consulting ( BCC ) seeks a Computational Biologist (SRA Bioinformatics) to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM),…

Embedded Systems Engineer (Medical Devices)

Open 61d North America

Altium C++ Embedded Software FPGA GitHub +11 skills

This role involves designing and implementing embedded systems for medical devices, bridging the gap between FPGA logic and application software. The engineer will own the full stack from board-level schematic design to Linux kernel driver development using Xilinx tools and AXI protocols.

Open 26d North AmericaFull-timeMiddle

Mid-Level C++ Developer

Accessibility Agile Analytics Angular API +22 skills

Mid-level C++/Python developer at Black Canyon Consulting supporting NCBI at NIH: building back-end services, data pipelines, APIs, and command-line tools in C++ with significant Python, working with relational databases, Cassandra, and Solr. Onsite in Bethesda, MD and/or remote.

Open 130d HybridNorth America

Full Stack Developer

Accessibility Agile Angular API Big Data +16 skills

Black Canyon Consulting is hiring a full-stack developer (Python/Django/Angular) to support NCBI's Sequence Read Archive, a petabyte-scale biomedical sequencing data archive at NIH. The role builds user-facing web apps and scientific data visualizations and is hybrid, onsite in Bethesda, MD about two days per week.

Open 130d North AmericaFull-timeSenior

Senior Software Developer (C++)

API Bash Big Data Bioinformatics CI/CD +18 skills

Senior C++ developer building and maintaining bioinformatics software and biological sequence annotation/data-curation infrastructure for NCBI at NIH, working with petabyte-scale big data. Core stack is C++ on Linux with MS SQL Server and scripting (Python/Bash), plus Docker, CI/CD, and cloud.

115K – 150K $

Database Architect (Cloud) for SRA

API Athena Aurora AWS Bash +24 skills

Black Canyon Consulting is hiring a Database Architect to support NCBI (NIH) in Bethesda, MD, designing and optimizing petabyte-scale, distributed cloud database systems for biomedical data resources. Day-to-day work covers partitioning/sharding, SQL tuning, replication, monitoring, and cloud database services like AWS RDS/Aurora and BigQuery. Full-time, onsite.

Open 130d North AmericaLead

Platform Ops Lead

Ansible Argo CD Automation AWS Azure +32 skills

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for Platform Ops Lead to lead Operations Support Engineer to join our DevOps and infrastructure team to support application developers and operations. NCBI is located in…

Open 130d North AmericaFull-timeLead

Project Manager

Agile Big Data Cloud C++ Distributed Systems +5 skills

Project Manager coordinating the full SDLC of scientific and genomic data software projects for NIH's NCBI. Day to day involves Agile project coordination, tracking milestones and deliverables, balancing risks/schedules/resources, and leading cross-functional technical teams.

Open 130d North AmericaFull-timeSenior

Senior Platform Engineer (DataOps)

Agile Airflow Argo CD Artifactory AWS +36 skills

Senior engineer who builds and continuously improves an enterprise-wide DataOps platform for NCBI (NIH/NLM), creating shared tools, automated compliance pipelines, and helping developers adopt the platform. Core stack: Kubernetes, GitOps and containerization, major clouds (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kafka, and Airflow.

Open 130d North AmericaFull-timeSenior

Senior Full Stack Developer

Accessibility Agile Angular API Big Data +15 skills

Builds and maintains user-facing Python/Django web applications supporting millions of daily users at the NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The role covers backend APIs, front-end integration, automated testing, security/accessibility compliance, and mentoring junior developers on an agile team.

Full Stack Developer - Python/Django/ReactJS

Accessibility Agile Angular API Big Data +17 skills

Full stack developer building user-facing web applications, APIs, and services in Python/Django and ReactJS for the NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), supporting millions of daily users. Works on an agile team delivering accessible, tested code; onsite in Bethesda, MD and/or remote.

Platform Engineer (DataOps)

Agile Airflow Argo CD Artifactory AWS +36 skills

Platform Engineer (DataOps) at Black Canyon Consulting supporting NCBI (NIH/NLM) in building an enterprise-wide DataOps platform. Day to day: developing and improving the platform, shared tools/libraries, and automated compliance pipelines using Kubernetes, GitOps, cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kafka, and Airflow.

115K – 150K $

QA Platform Engineer

Agile AKS Artifactory Azure Bitbucket +46 skills

QA Platform Engineer (DevOps) supporting NCBI at NIH: builds compliance/QA pipelines with quality gates, automated web testing (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright), and CI/CD and monitoring tooling using Python/JavaScript/Java, Kubernetes, and Linux. Based in Bethesda, MD with onsite/remote flexibility.

UI/UX Developer

Agile API Big Data C++ CSS +5 skills

Builds Python/Django user-facing UI components for NIH's dbGaP data-access systems as part of a UI modernization effort, integrating them with backend APIs, applying USWDS styling, and documenting user workflows. Based at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD and/or remote.

90K – 130K $

Openshift / Kubernetes Engineer

Ansible Argo CD Automation AWS Azure +33 skills

DevOps/systems engineer at Black Canyon Consulting supporting NCBI (NIH/NLM) in Bethesda, MD: building and maintaining Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, GCP (GKE/Anthos), and service mesh, while providing on-call support to internal developers. On-site with remote options.

Open 130d North AmericaFull-timeLead

Operations Support Engineer - Lead

Ansible Argo CD Automation AWS Azure +32 skills

Overview Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is looking for a Lead Operations Support Engineer to join our DevOps and infrastructure team to support application developers and operations at the National Center for…

Open 130d North AmericaFull-timePrincipal

Senior Software Developer C++ (Program Principal Engineer )

Bash Bioinformatics CI/CD Cloud Containerization +14 skills

Senior C++ developer building and maintaining bioinformatics software, sequence-annotation pipelines, and data-curation infrastructure for NIH's NCBI. Day to day involves implementing efficient bioinformatics algorithms with scientists on Linux; requires C++, MS SQL Server, and scripting (BASH/csh/Perl/Python). Onsite in Bethesda, MD and/or remote.

Data Engineer