Software Engineer, Benchling
Infrastructure, Release Engineering
$177.7-240.5k
+ Equity
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
$177.7-240.5k
+ 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
- 6 or more years of experience as a DevOps engineer or software engineer building infrastructure and/or internal tooling,
- Experience with deployment and configuration management frameworks such as Terraform (IaC); with CI/CD systems such as BuildKite or Jenkins; and with containers and container management systems such as Kubernetes or Amazon ECS
- Understanding of cloud computing, virtualization, and microservices architectures, and experience with major cloud platforms, especially AWS
- Strong communication (oral and written), influence, and presentation skills. Ability to accept conflict and face it head on, strategically
- Repeated experience leading projects with multiple engineers and diverse stakeholders, with tech plans and long-term project management
- A track record of 1:1 technical mentorship on teams and within organizations
- Enthusiastic about working onsite in our SF office 3 days a week
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
What the job involves
- The Release Engineering team owns software release at Benchling. Our responsibility spans integration and deployment of code, across both our continuous (multiple deploys per day) and validated (quarterly deployments) pipelines. We serve Benchling software engineers as our customers. Indirectly, we also serve Benchling's end users for both our Standard and Validated Cloud product offerings
- As an Infrastructure Engineer, you'll shape our platform for agility, performance, and security
- Collaborate with engineers across the Infrastructure organization to enable our software engineers to get their code into production quickly, safely, and without manual effort
- Propose and lead efforts to deliver our next generation of infrastructure, across the organization
- Your work will be pivotal as we grow alongside our global user base, providing highly reliable and trusted infrastructure
- Own projects end-to-end, from proposal and alignment, to planning and initial design, to large-scale rollout
- Support engineers across Benchling to understand real time developer experience with our CI/CD pipelines, and recommend future investments
- Investigate issues, risks, tradeoffs, and improvement opportunities
- Assess opportunities given constraints and business goals
- Contribute to the next set of exciting projects on our roadmap:
- Build automation and horizontal processes to bring us closer to truly continuous delivery and progressive software delivery
- Invest in technologies to optimize how we build, test, and deploy software, including progressive deployments like canarying
- Further the experience of engineers working in microservices
- Bring our continuous and validated (quarterly) release infrastructures closer together, by having a higher-level view into Benchling infrastructure and production systems
- Habitual responsibility for and innate interest in developer experience quality and performance
- Further engineering culture, practices, and processes throughout the organization and company
- Advocate for the success of the team and for your own career, growth, and interests
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
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 values
- Constant Curiosity - Like the scientists we serve, we approach life with a sense of constant curiosity
- Scientist First - We’re relentlessly focused on taking a scientist-first approach
- Impact Driven - We commit our time, energy, and resources to efforts that will drive maximum impact
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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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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