Benchling

Data Engineer

Benchling
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3 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$153k - $207k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate end-to-end ELT pipelines from Benchling, Salesforce, and third-party systems into Snowflake, using dbt and production standards such as testing, monitoring, and schema versioning.
  • Make governed and trustworthy data available for AIDE’s agentic AI tooling and internal AI applications.
  • Maintain Snowflake access controls, monitor data quality, uphold privacy and data-access policies, and manage warehouse cost and performance.
  • Contribute to warehouse architecture, semantic-layer and metrics-store design, and the broader data architecture strategy.
  • Support data and analytics needs across GTM, Customer Success, Product, Finance, and other company functions.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of professional experience building and operating production data pipelines involving ingestion, transformation, and cloud data warehouse modeling.
  • Strong SQL and Python skills, with hands-on experience in data modeling methodologies and tools, preferably dbt.
  • Experience applying software engineering practices to data systems, including version control, code review, CI/CD, automated testing, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS.
  • Production experience with Snowflake or a comparable modern cloud data warehouse.
  • Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow for scheduled data jobs.
  • Experience supporting stakeholders across multiple departments rather than a single internal customer.
  • Understanding of data privacy, governance, data quality, and testing frameworks and best practices.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to translate ambiguous requests from non-technical stakeholders into scoped data solutions.
  • Ability to work in a small, fast-moving, still-forming team; interest in learning about life science is helpful but not required.
  • Preferred familiarity with product behavioral data, self-service BI tools such as Sigma, Omni, Looker, or Tableau, product analytics instrumentation, event-taxonomy governance, Salesforce, AI-usage telemetry, LLM observability data, AI/ML tooling support, enterprise SaaS, life sciences, biotech, or metrics layers.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work arrangement prioritizing in-office collaboration, with employees expected to work on-site three days per week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowAWSdbtPythonSnowflakeSQL

Categories

Data Engineering
Benchling

About Benchling

501-1,000 employees

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.

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