Software Engineer (Architect)
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$ 246866 - 333995
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Job Description
Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it from the medicines we take to the crops we grow the materials we wear and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology.
Benchlings mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The worlds most innovative biotech companies use Benchlings R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market.
Come help us bring modern software to modern science.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Benchlings data infrastructure and computation platform powers highscale work at the worlds leading biotech companies. Our Data Platform and Infrastructure teams build and maintain the overall architecture of Benchling and build new crossservice 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 youll use your tried experience to design and build the systems underlying Benchlings services and applications. Your work will ensure the agility performance reliability and security of Benchling.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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 handson; 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 multiservices 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
QUALIFICATIONS
- 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 multiservices) or led the refactoring or replacement of a large hosted service
- Are deeply familiar with microservices architecture and can design distributed systems using managed Kubernetes (e.g. AWSs 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 welltested code in Python Java Go or Ruby.
- Have a bachelors degree or equivalent in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field.
HOW WE WORK
Flexible Hybrid Work: We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes inoffice collaboration. Employees are expected to be onsite 3 days per week.
SALARY RANGE
Benchling takes a marketbased approach to pay. The candidates starting pay will be determined based on jobrelated skills experience qualifications interview performance and work location. For this role the base salary range is $246866 to $333995
To help you determine which zone applies to your location please see thisresource. If you have questions regarding a specific locations zone designation please contact a recruiter for additional information.
- Competitive total rewards package
- Broad range of medical dental and vision plans for employees and their dependents
- Fertility healthcare and familyforming benefits
- Four months of fully paid parental leave
- 401(k) Employer Match
- Commuter benefits for inoffice employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
- Mental health benefits including therapy and coaching for employees and their dependents
- Monthly Wellness stipend
- Learning and development stipend
- Generous and flexible vacation
- Companywide Winter holiday shutdown
- Sabbaticals for 5year and 10year anniversaries
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Benchling welcomes everyone.
We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities backgrounds and experiences.
We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we dont discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with applicable federal state and local law including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Please be aware that Benchling will never request personal information payment or sensitive details outside of Greenhouse or via email. All official communications will come from an @ email address or from an approved vendor alias. If you are contacted by someone claiming to represent Benchling and are unsure of their legitimacy please reach out to us at to verify the communication.
Employment Type
Full Time
