Software Engineer (Principal or Architect)

Benchling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 246,000 - 334,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biotechnology company is seeking a Principal Engineer to enhance their data platform and infrastructure. This role involves designing and implementing systems to ensure performance, reliability, and security while mentoring junior engineers. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering, cloud services, and micro-services architecture.

Benefits

Competitive total rewards package

Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans

Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits

Four months of fully paid parental leave

401(k) + Employer Match

Commuter benefits

Mental health benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous and flexible vacation

Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• 5+ years of experience with SaaS products in public cloud.
• Experience with micro-services architecture and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems for Benchling's services.
• Lead strategy and architecture for significant projects.
• Mentor other engineers and improve system reliability.

Skills

Software Engineering

Micro-services Architecture

Cloud Services

Kubernetes

Python

Java

Go

Ruby

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

BuildKite

Jenkins

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.

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 accelerate time to milestone and market.

Come help us bring modern software to modern science.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Benchling's data infrastructure and computation platform powers high-scale work at the world's leading biotech companies. Our Data Platform and Infrastructure teams build and maintain the overall architecture of Benchling and build new cross-service 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, you'll use your tried experience to design and build the systems underlying Benchling's 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 hands-on; 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 multi-services 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 multi-services) or led the refactoring or replacement of a large hosted service
• Are deeply familiar with micro-services architecture and can design distributed systems using managed Kubernetes (e.g., AWS's 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, well-tested code in Python, Java, Go, or Ruby.
• Have a bachelor's 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 in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week.

SALARY RANGE

Benchling takes a market-based approach to pay. The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location. For this role the base salary range is $246,866 to $333,995

To help you determine which zone applies to your location, please see thisresource. If you have questions regarding a specific location's zone designation, please contact a recruiter for additional information.

Total Compensation includes the following:

• Competitive total rewards package
• Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
• Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Commuter benefits for in-office 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
• Company-wide Winter holiday shutdown
• Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year 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 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.

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