Infrastructure Software Engineer, Benchling
$157.2-212.8k
3 days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Be an early applicant
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$157.2-212.8k
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 5 or more years of experience as a DevOps engineer, Site Reliability engineer, or Software Engineer building platform infrastructure
- Have experience with deployment and configuration management frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef; with CI/CD systems such as BuildKite or Jenkins; and with containers and container management systems such as Kubernetes or Amazon ECS
- Understand cloud computing, virtualization, and microservices architectures. Experience with major cloud platforms, especially AWS, is a plus
- 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
What the job involves
- Benchling brings best-in-breed data infrastructure to the world's leading biotech companies
- As an Infrastructure Engineer, you'll shape our platform for agility, performance, and security
- Our core infrastructure team empowers growth, ensuring reliability and scalability for the future
- Join to build out new services, capabilities, and patterns that enable the next generation of scientific workflows and automation
- We're seeking experienced engineers to join our dynamic Platform team
- Collaborate with former Stripe, Google, and Facebook engineers to create a robust backbone for our platform, enabling new forms of automation and integration in the life science space
- Your work will be pivotal as we grow alongside our global user base, providing highly reliable and trusted infrastructure
- Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure hosted on AWS
- Build developer-facing systems to test, build, and deploy Benchling’s software
- Define and implement our infrastructural security posture
- Develop monitoring/observability and automation as part of a lean operations function
- Define and lead processes for site reliability that will be used across Engineering and Customer Experience
- These are examples of projects we've worked on in the past or may work on in the near future - our projects are often changing, but this will hopefully give you an idea of the work to be done
- Iterating on our tenancy model and architecture to build out resource isolation, data segmentation, and deployment models as we scale our customer base
- Building a test and deploy pipeline on Buildkite - we have a large test suite and a large number of Benchling instances and need tools to deploy faster while maintaining the same degree of reliability
- Improving network performance for global users - this is an open-ended problem which needs to be solved as our user base becomes increasingly international
- Observability - mature our monitoring, tracing, and alerting systems so we have the right dashboards, notifications, and tools to quickly identify and resolve operational issues
- Automating remediation of fault conditions to improve overall reliability and eliminate repetitive operational tasks
- Building tooling and infrastructure for a more modular/service-based architecture - we're not religious about microservices or monoliths, but we plan to scale our architecture with our engineering team
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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