Backend Release Engineer — AI-Driven Biotech Platform

Benchling; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Benchling, the AI platform for biotech R&D, is seeking a Release Engineer to create tools and frameworks that enable engineers to ship changes to Benchling’s customers. You will drive developer happiness, productivity, and high-quality product releases.

This role emphasizes building tooling, collaborating with product, design, and engineering peers, and contributing to scalable processes. A flexible hybrid work arrangement is offered, with on-site 3 days per week.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Build software with a product-first approach.
• Expertise with at least one web framework, preferably node or python.
• Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback.
• Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product.
• Have empathy for your customers and curiosity about their challenges.

Responsibilities

• Build and implement tooling for efficient, frictionless development, testing, and packaging for production release.
• Iterate on developer experience improvements using qualitative and quantitative feedback.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address challenges in engineering workflows that impact developer happiness and productivity.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers in engineering to make Benchling a delightful place to develop software.
• Help rapidly scale our product and team. As a member of the engineering team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring.

Skills

Software engineering

Node.js

Python

Problem solving

Ownership

Customer empathy

Job description

Benchling, the AI platform for biotech R&D, is seeking a Release Engineer to create tools and frameworks that enable engineers to ship changes to Benchling’s customers. You will drive developer happiness, productivity, and high-quality product releases.

This role emphasizes building tooling, collaborating with product, design, and engineering peers, and contributing to scalable processes. A flexible hybrid work arrangement is offered, with on-site 3 days per week.