Benchling

Software Engineer, Platform – Developer Experience, High Seniority

Benchling

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $167,969 - $265,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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).
Benefits
  • Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, 401(k)+ employer match, wellness, commuter, and more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringcontainerized applicationsDockerKubernetesweb frameworkNode.jsPythondevelopment toolingquality integrationproduct-first approach
Soft Skills
problem solvingiterating on feedbackownershipempathycuriositycollaborationleadershipcommunicationorganizational skillsdeveloper experience