Software Engineer, Benchling
Data Platform, CDC & Search, Seniority
$214.6-290.4k
3 days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Open for applications
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$214.6-290.4k
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
- You bring 6+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years with distributed data processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Debezium, Spark, Flink)
- You’re hands-on with infrastructure tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform, or ECS, and scripting in Python or similar
- You value clean abstractions and solving root problems—not just shipping workarounds
- You’re a clear communicator, both in code and in writing, and bring a collaborative spirit to technical planning
- You may not have a background in biology—and that’s okay. Many of our best engineers come from FinTech, infrastructure, or consumer tech. What matters most is curiosity and a willingness to learn
- You want to build for deeply technical users—scientists with PhDs doing life-changing work
- You value autonomy, iterate instead of over-planning, and seek impact over optics
What the job involves
- As a Data Platform engineer, you’ll build the next generation of infrastructure that powers real-time scientific discovery
- You’ll architect multi-tenant pipelines, develop change data capture (CDC) systems, and design scalable, privacy-aware solutions that enable our customers—scientists and researchers—to move faster and smarter
- This is a rare opportunity to do deep engineering work with a clear line of sight to real-world health outcomes
- Whether you’re building tools that help accelerate vaccine development or scaling infrastructure for biotech R&D, your work here matters
- Own core systems end-to-end—from design and prototyping to deployment and scale
- Build real-time data infrastructure (CDC pipelines, search indexing and more) that powers customer analytics and platform extensibility
- Design CI/CD workflows and internal tooling that make our platform easy to operate, secure, and maintain
- Collaborate with product managers, platform architects, and internal developers to define a shared vision for data at Benchling
- Set standards for data integrity, privacy, and reliability across internal and customer-facing systems
- Champion platform engineering best practices and influence how Benchling teams interact with data at scale
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
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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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