Software Engineer, Benchling
Data Platform
$165.1-223.4k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Posted today
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$165.1-223.4k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology and empower their global customers to get to milestones & market faster.
Role
Who you are
- Have 6+ years of experience or a proven track record in software engineering
- Experience with data processing technologies Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, Flink, or other open-source or commercial software
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable, distributed systems
- Strong experience with scripting language (such as Python)
- Experience with deployment and configuration management frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef and container management systems such as Kubernetes or Amazon ECS
- Driven by creating positive impact for our customers and Benchling's business, and ultimately accelerating the pace of research in the Life Sciences
- Comfortable with complexity in the short term but can build towards simplicity in the long term
- Strong communicator with both words and data - you understand what it takes to go from raw data to something a human understands
What the job involves
- As one of Benchling's Data Platform engineers, you'll join a rapidly growing engineering team and form the foundation of our data pillar, encompassing customer-facing products and internal-developer services/tools
- You will build the next generation of our Data Platform services that enable internal developers to build multi-tenant applications/services that consume near real-time data-changes
- Benchling is growing quickly, and you'll set the bar for high-quality data and a metrics-driven culture as we scale
- You'll serve as a key input and thought leader and work closely with the product teams to deliver data-driven capabilities to our internal and external customers
- Own projects end-to-end, from initial design, to prototype, to large-scale rollout
- Build & operate high throughput distributed messaging platform like Kafka/kinesis to enable data change capture and data integration across Benchling
- Define and design data transformations and pipelines for cross-functional datasets, while ensuring that data integrity and data privacy are first-class concerns regarded proactively, instead of reactively
- Define the right Service Level Objectives for the batch & streaming pipelines, and optimize their performance
- Designing and creating CI/CD pipelines for platform provisioning, full lifecycle management. Building the platform control panel to operate the fleet of systems efficiently
- Work closely with the team across Application and Platform to establish best practices around usage of our data platform
Our take
As the pioneer of the R&D Cloud, Benchling offers a cloud-based informatics platform tailored for biotechnology. Its platform enables scientists across the globe to make breakthrough discoveries and bring next-gen biotechnology to market.
There’s a sincerity and consciousness to Benchling’s approach that stands out. This has led to the company being adopted by over 200,000 scientists from 1,000+ companies and 7,500 academic and research institutions globally (including 23andMe, Moderna, and the U.S. Department of Defense).
The rapidly advancing Biotechnology industry was at the forefront of the so-called “fourth industrial revolution”, with the industry driving $2 to $4 trillion per year of economic impact over the next 20 years.
Benchling has put itself in a position of immense value within the industry with its expanding offerings. Off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $411.9m
Company benefits
- 4 months paid parental leave
- 401k plan
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Work from home opportunities
- 100% premiums covered for health, dental, & vision
- Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sajith Wickramasekara
(CEO)Sajith studied at MIT before spending 2 years as a Research Assistant at Duke University Medical Centre and Liquidia Technologies. They used this biotechnology understanding to found Benchling in June 2012, serving as CEO since.
Ashu Singhal
(President)They previously co-founded Hotspots.io which was later acquired by Twitter in 2012. After this, became Staff Software Engineer at Twitter for 2 years, leaving to co-found Benchling.
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