Engineering Leader, Benchling

• We’re specifically looking for a leader with a software engineering and infrastructure background, not just operations. Experience with incident management and managing SRE teams is a plus
• 5+ years of people leadership experience including managing a team across a range
• Strong technical depth with previous direct, hands-on experience in software engineering and infrastructure/platform engineering
• Production experience operating on AWS (e.g., EKS/ECS, RDS, VPC, EC2, S3) and building scalable internal platforms
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and services-platform patterns (e.g., service mesh such as Istio, ingress, service discovery, workload isolation)
• Experience building or evolving observability and operational tooling (Datadog, FireHydrant, Sentry, or similar)
• Ability to collaborate across teams and influence without authority; strong written and verbal communication
• Comfort working in a stack largely in Python (Go also highly appreciated), with TypeScript in the broader ecosystem (especially for platform tooling and integrations)

Desirable

• Benchling is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a team within Infrastructure Engineering
• This is a highly technical leadership role for someone with hands-on experience building modern cloud infrastructure and services platforms, paired with strong people leadership
• You’ll work closely across Infrastructure and Platform
• You'll be partnering with product engineering teams and other leaders to improve reliability, scalability, security, and developer productivity in a regulated environment
• Lead and grow a team of infrastructure engineers including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development across all levels of the team
• Own delivery and outcomes for critical infrastructure and services-platform initiatives including reliability, scalability, cost, security posture, and compliance-aligned engineering practices
• Drive reliability improvements using pragmatic SRE principles: service-level thinking (SLIs/SLOs), operational readiness, automation, and resiliency patterns
• Strengthen incident response: improve on-call health, incident processes, postmortems, and follow-up execution in collaboration with product engineering and platform teams
• Build and evolve cloud foundations on AWS, including network and compute patterns and Kubernetes-based services
• Partner cross-functionally with Platform Engineering, Security, and Product Engineering to align priorities and deliver shared roadmaps
• Operate in a regulated environment (GxP/biotech): help ensure infrastructure changes are traceable, auditable, and appropriately controlled, without slowing teams down unnecessarily