Software Engineer, Benchling
Architect
$246.9-334k
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
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Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$246.9-334k
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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
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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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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