Backend Software Engineer, Benchling
Usage & Billing Platform
$186.6-252.5k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
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
$186.6-252.5k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in SaaS and/or platform engineering
- Proficiency in backend development and API design with Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript (Benchling uses Python internally for most systems); strong data modeling skills and experience with transactional (e.g., Postgres) and analytical stores (e.g., Snowflake/ClickHouse)
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems and event-driven/streaming pipelines (e.g., Kafka/Kinesis/Pub/Sub) plus batch processing (e.g., Spark/Flink/Beam); solid testing and reliability practices
- Track record of delivering projects end-to-end and collaborating with Product, Finance, RevOps, and Security to translate business rules into meters, pricing, and invoicing
- Deep care for data quality and correctness (idempotency, deduplication, reconciliation/backfills, lineage/audit trails) and familiarity with SLIs/SLOs, observability (metrics/logs/tracing), and incident response
- Nice to have: experience building or integrating metered consumption systems (e.g., OpenMeter, Metronome), payment/ERP providers (e.g., Stripe, NetSuite), and downstream analytics/revenue recognition tooling
- Excellent communication and documentation skills; ability to mentor peers and improve developer ergonomics through clear APIs, instrumentation standards, and tooling
- Enthusiasm for complex technical challenges and an interest in the life sciences domain
What the job involves
- As a software engineer on the Usage & Billing Platform team, you will design, build, and operate the systems that power Benchling’s usage metering, rating, and billing which are foundational to how we deliver and monetize consumption-based products
- Your work will enable Benchling to scale its product offerings with financial-grade accuracy and customer transparency, while shaping the technical strategy and best practices that product and platform teams rely on to instrument features and reason about cost, value, and growth
- The breadth of Benchling’s products means a one-size-fits-all approach to metering won’t work
- Our platform empowers internal application teams to emit canonical usage events, define meters and aggregation windows, and model dimensions such as units, tiers, and entitlements, all natively integrated with Benchling
- As an engineer on the team, you’ll own the evolution of these capabilities end-to-end: from high-throughput, low-latency ingestion and exactly-once aggregation to backfills, reconciliation, and data quality guardrails (idempotency, deduplication, lineage)
- You’ll ensure usage data is trustworthy “at rest” and immediately actionable “in motion,” enabling real-time product experiences (e.g. , quotas, alerts, in-app usage views) and downstream analytics
- This team also owns the Billing Platform, the source of truth for plans, pricing, discounts and credits, and invoice generation, as well as the internal APIs and tooling that make usage-based monetization consistent by default across Benchling
- Team members define modeling standards and developer ergonomics for event schemas and meters, and steward interfaces to adjacent systems such as identity & entitlements, data warehousing & reporting, ERP/payment providers, and revenue recognition
- You’ll help set the bar for reliability, auditability, and compliance, partnering closely with Product, Finance, RevOps, and Security to ensure our platform is robust, transparent, and ready for scale
- Design, build, and operate high-throughput usage metering pipelines (event schemas, exactly-once ingestion, windowed aggregation), including backfills, reconciliation, and strong data-quality guarantees (idempotency, deduplication, lineage)
- Develop and evolve Billing Platform primitives including plans, pricing, entitlements, discounts/credits, invoicing, as well as integrations with identity, data warehouse, ERP/payment providers; ensure auditability, compliance, and financial-grade accuracy
- Ship real-time product experiences powered by usage (quotas, alerts, in-app dashboards) and robust observability; define SLAs and lead incident response for platform reliability
- Partner with Product, Finance, RevOps, Security, and Application teams to translate business rules into meters and pricing models; validate with experiments and usage analytics
- Improve developer ergonomics and consistency across Benchling via clear APIs/SDKs, instrumentation standards, documentation, and mentorship; drive continual improvements to team process and tooling
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. And now, 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: $411.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Robust healthcare benefits
- Family-forming benefits
- Four months of fully paid parental leave
- Retirement benefits
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sajith Wickramasekara
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & 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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