Software Engineer, Platform (Developer Experience)

Benchling; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Benchling is seeking a Software Engineer to enhance developer experience and drive innovation. The role involves creating tools for efficient development and packaging, leading the design of release processes, and ensuring fast deployment practices.

With over 7 years of software engineering experience, candidates should be proficient in Docker and Kubernetes, and have a customer-centric mindset. The position supports hybrid and remote work arrangements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 5+ years with containerized applications in production.
• Expertise in at least one web framework, preferably Node or Python.
• Desire to learn about life sciences.

Responsibilities

• Build tooling for efficient development, testing, packaging.
• Lead design of release tooling for rapid code deployment.
• Iterate improvements based on developer feedback.
• Champion effective engineering patterns across teams.
• Collaborate to enhance developer happiness and productivity.

Skills

Software engineering

Problem solving

Effective communication

Empathy for customers

Ownership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era. When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.

Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world\'s top 50 biopharma.

We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it\'s core to how we work, and we\'re committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you\'ll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Benchling\'s mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world\'s most innovative biotech companies use Benchling\'s R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products, and to accelerate time to milestone and market. Benchling\'s customers generate a rich variety of science data. To keep up innovation, Benchling needs highly scalable and effective infrastructure and developer experience pipelines that serve our internal engineers.

Developer Experience is a crucial function that empowers our engineers to excel in their craft. As a technical leader in the Platform pillar, you’ll work closely with the Developer Productivity and Release Engineering teams to create tools and frameworks that enhance developer experience, with a focus on the Path to Production. Your success will enable our engineering teams to efficiently deliver high quality products. By understanding the unique challenges developers face and crafting solutions to streamline their workflows, you\'ll play a key role in driving innovation and fulfilling Benchling’s mission.

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. 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.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Have 7+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Have 5+ years of experience with containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) in production.
• Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code.
• 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.
• Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must).
• Clear and effective communicator, especially in cross-functional settings

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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 don’t 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.