Job Description
Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it, from the medicines we take, to the crops we grow, the materials we wear, and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology.
Benchling’s mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world’s most innovative biotech companies use Benchling’s R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market.
Come help us bring modern software to modern science.
ROLE OVERVIEW Benchling's data infrastructure and computation platform powers high-scale work at the world's leading biotech companies. Our Data Platform and Infrastructure teams build and maintain the overall architecture of Benchling and build new cross-service capabilities to support new teams and needs. We ensure the system is secure, performant, and reliable by default, and advise and assist application teams in doing the same for their areas of responsibility.
In this role, you'll use your tried experience to design and build the systems underlying Benchling's services and applications. Your work will ensure the agility, performance, reliability, and security of Benchling.
RESPONSIBILITIES As a Principal or Architect level engineer, you will work closely with our senior engineering and technical leaders to lead strategy and architecture for the most significant projects across our Data Platform and Infrastructure teams at Benchling. This role will be hands-on; we expect you to design and implement systems and write code. Core areas of impact will include:
Improving the reliability of Benchling systems at scale
Build integrations with 3rd party systems (e.g Snowflake)
Shepherding Benchling into a multi-services world
Defining and leading processes for site reliability that will be used across Engineering and Customer Experience
Defining and leading processes for disaster recovery
Defining and implementing our infrastructural security posture
Designing release procedures for regulatory environments
Mentoring other engineers and being a significant multiplier across the team
QUALIFICATIONS 12+ years of experience as a Software Engineer building, designing and architecting data platform and infrastructure systems.
Have 5+ years of experience with building and operating SaaS products hosted in a public cloud
Have shipped and maintained a horizontally scaled stateful service in a public cloud for a large set of customers
Have led a large migration (e.g., from monolith to multi-services) or led the refactoring or replacement of a large hosted service
Are deeply familiar with micro-services architecture and can design distributed systems using managed Kubernetes (e.g., AWS's EKS), a service mesh (e.g., istio), and a distributed secrets store (e.g., Hashicorp Vault)
Have experience with deployment and configuration management frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef; CI/CD systems such as BuildKite or Jenkins; and containers and container management systems such as Kubernetes or Amazon ECS.
Write clear, well-tested code in Python, Java, Go, or Ruby.
Have a bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
HOW WE WORK Flexible Hybrid Work: We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week.
SALARY RANGE Benchling takes a market-based approach to pay. The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location. For this role the base salary range is $246,866 to $333,995
To help you determine which zone applies to your location, please see thisresource . If you have questions regarding a specific location's zone designation, please contact a recruiter for additional information.
Total Compensation includes the following:
Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
Four months of fully paid parental leave
401(k) + Employer Match
Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
Monthly Wellness stipend
Learning and development stipend
Generous and flexible vacation
Company-wide Winter holiday shutdown
Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries
We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
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