
Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Lab
Ginkgo Bioworks Inc.1 month ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$134k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Scope, design, and deliver large or complex software features end-to-end with minimal guidance.
- Own software components and subsystems across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
- Drive architectural improvements supporting reliability, maintainability, and developer productivity.
- Define interfaces and contracts and collaborate with scientists, operators, customers, and engineering teams.
- Develop automated tests, observability, and fault-tolerant systems while contributing to incident response and remediation.
- Mentor less senior engineers and contribute to hiring, documentation, design reviews, and engineering practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in a software development role with ownership of complex systems or features.
- Strong proficiency in Python and relevant additional language experience depending on team placement.
- Experience designing and operating production APIs, services, or systems with real users and uptime expectations.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, science, and customer-facing stakeholders.
- Preferred experience includes laboratory automation, robotics, scientific instrumentation, agentic systems, LLM-backed applications, scheduling and optimization, hardware protocols, device software libraries, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, customer-environment deployments, Kafka, Temporal, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake, and Git.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $134,300.00-$189,900.00, plus company stock awards.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage; health spending accounts; voluntary benefits; leave policies; and a 401(k) program with employer contribution.
- Eight paid holidays, a full-week winter shutdown, and unlimited paid time off.
- Regular onsite attendance at the Boston office Monday through Friday is required, and relocation assistance is available.
- The Solutions Engineering team may require domestic and occasional international travel of up to 35%.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureC#ClickHouseGitGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes.NETPostgreSQLPythonReactSnowflakeTypeScript