2 hours ago
Base Salary
$195k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own infrastructure projects end to end, from technical design and prototyping through production rollout and operational handoff.
- Build and maintain internal applications, APIs, automation, CLIs, Slack apps, serverless services, and AI-powered assistants for cloud infrastructure workflows.
- Own AWS foundation components including Kubernetes/EKS, networking, secrets and PKI, security capabilities, and observability.
- Operate and improve Terraform Cloud, reusable Terraform modules, infrastructure-as-code release systems, and policy-as-code guardrails.
- Build cloud cost visibility, anomaly alerting, cost allocation, and usage-trend analysis capabilities.
- Contribute to observability tooling, vendor relationships, and monitoring-stack cost and performance decisions.
- Make architectural decisions, align multiple teams, and establish technical direction and standards.
- Operate production systems through on-call participation, incident response, postmortems, and root-cause analysis.
- Partner with internal platform users, mentor teammates, and improve engineering tooling and practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in coding, testing, debugging, API design, and system design.
- Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language such as Python, Go, or TypeScript.
- Hands-on AWS experience, including understanding of compute, storage, networking, and security.
- Production experience with infrastructure-as-code, ideally Terraform at meaningful scale.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based platforms.
- Ability to independently scope and deliver complex, ambiguous, multi-month projects from proposal through production.
- Experience writing technical design documents, communicating tradeoffs, making architectural decisions, and aligning multiple teams.
- Comfort working across development and operations, diagnosing production problems, and participating in an on-call rotation.
- Clear written communication, strong documentation habits, and collaborative work with internal platform users.
- Preferred experience with cloud cost management, HashiCorp Vault, AWS networking at scale, internal developer tooling, LLM-powered tools, observability platforms, regulated or multi-region infrastructure, GitOps, policy-as-code, technical leadership, mentoring, or AI-assisted development tools.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement prioritizing in-office collaboration, with employees expected onsite three days per week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
Tech Stack
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About Benchling
Benchling builds an R&D cloud and AI platform for life sciences, combining electronic lab notebooks, sample/registry management, workflow automation, and developer APIs to run models and integrate data. It sells subscriptions and services to biopharma, biotech, and research organizations; customers include Sanofi and Moderna. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.