Platform DX Engineer — Speedy Release & Tooling

Benchling; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Benchling, the AI platform for biotech R&D, is seeking a Developer Experience leader within the Platform pillar to empower engineers with tooling that accelerates the path to production. You’ll work with the Developer Productivity and Release Engineering teams to create frameworks that enhance developer experience and streamline workflows.

Your impact includes delivering production-ready tooling, improving release processes, and scaling engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• Build tools with a product-first approach; ship code quickly.
• Expertise with at least one web framework, preferably Node or Python.
• Strong problem solving and feedback iteration abilities.
• Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product.
• Empathy for customers and curiosity about challenges.
• Interest in life science and learning is a must.
• Clear and effective communication in cross-functional settings.

Responsibilities

• Build and implement tooling for efficient, frictionless development, testing, and packaging for production release.
• Lead the design and development of release tooling that enables code changes to reach production within 10 minutes.
• Iterate on developer experience improvements using qualitative and quantitative feedback.
• Implement feedback loops that integrate quality into software development workflows.
• Champion effective engineering and operational patterns across the Engineering org.
• 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; mature tooling, engineering processes, and hiring.

Skills

Software engineering

Web framework (Node/Python)

Problem solving

Ownership and product mindset

Cross-functional communication

Tools

Node.js

Python

Job description

Benchling, the AI platform for biotech R&D, is seeking a Developer Experience leader within the Platform pillar to empower engineers with tooling that accelerates the path to production. You’ll work with the Developer Productivity and Release Engineering teams to create frameworks that enhance developer experience and streamline workflows.

Your impact includes delivering production-ready tooling, improving release processes, and scaling engineering practices.