Software Engineer, Benchling
Data Platform, Lead
$186.6-252.5k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Job no longer available
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$186.6-252.5k
+ Equity
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
- Platform Experience: At least 8 years of experience designing and implementing highly scalable multi-tenant services & APIs with well-defined Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for internal developers
- Technical Vision and Influence: Ability to define and execute a multi-year platform strategy that improves system scalability, developer experience, and operational efficiency
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Proven ability to collaborate with application teams, infrastructure teams, and product managers to translate business needs into platform capabilities
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership
- Distributed Systems: Experience building highly scalable data transformation and ingestion pipelines while ensuring proactive data integrity and privacy
- Real-Time Data Technologies: Hands-on experience with technologies like Elastic/OpenSearch, Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, or Flink
- Infrastructure Management: Experience with deployment and configuration management tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and container systems like Kubernetes or Amazon ECS
- Database Expertise: Strong knowledge of RDBMS (Postgres) and NoSQL (DynamoDB), including database indexing and SQL performance tuning
Desirable
- Experience in the design and development of search platforms to support internal and external developers
- At least 2+ years of experience in operating infrastructure for search systems like Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Lucene
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform Engineering group, you will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable, multi-tenant services and APIs that serve as the foundation of our enterprise SaaS offerings
- You will define and champion the long-term technical vision, ensuring our platform aligns with company goals and industry best practices on distributed systems
- Your expertise will drive the evolution of our infrastructure, data pipelines, and core platform capabilities to enable seamless and reliable experiences for developers and customers alike
- You will collaborate closely with application teams, infrastructure engineers, and product managers to translate business needs into robust platform services
- Your contributions will enhance the scalability, performance, and security of our platform while fostering innovation and efficiency across engineering teams
- If you are passionate about building high-impact, foundational platform services and enjoy working in a dynamic, cross-functional environment, this role is for you
- Own projects end-to-end, from design and prototyping to deployment and large-scale rollout
- Define and champion the long-term technical vision, ensuring our platform aligns with industry best practices and company goals
- Collaborate effectively with stakeholders such as application teams, infrastructure teams, and PMs to understand requirements and translate them into scalable infrastructure and platform services
- Design and implement resilient APIs, distributed systems, and core infrastructure services that serve both internal and external developers
- Ensure high availability, performance, and security through proactive monitoring, testing, and optimization
- Mentor and support other engineers, fostering technical excellence and knowledge sharing across the team
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, tooling, and architectural decisions
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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