
Software Engineer, Platform – Developer Experience, High Seniority
Benchling
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $167,969 - $265,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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