
Software Engineer, Backend – Infrastructure Engineering
Benchling
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $148,000 - $200,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Build, maintain, and improve foundational infrastructure and platform services used by product engineering teams.
- Partner directly with product teams to define requirements, design paved paths, and reduce friction in deploying and operating services.
- Contribute to our Kubernetes-based platform (e.g., Kubernetes, Istio), including service configuration, traffic management, and platform tooling.
- Develop and operate AWS infrastructure and automation (e.g., EKS/ECS, RDS, VPC, EC2, S3), with an emphasis on scalability, cost-awareness, and resiliency.
- Strengthen observability and operational readiness through metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, and alerting (e.g., Datadog, Sentry, FireHydrant, Sentry, or similar).
- Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to incidents, and drive follow-up improvements to prevent recurrence (automation, hardening, better tooling).
- Write clear technical documentation and contribute to design discussions and reviews; improve systems incrementally with a focus on maintainability and reliability.
- Help ensure infrastructure meets expectations for operating in a regulated environment (e.g., change management, access controls, auditability) when applicable.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering
- Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code.
- Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback.
- Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product, while collaborating with other teams.
- Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must).
- Willing to work onsite in our SF office 3 days a week.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package
- Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
- Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
- Four months of fully paid parental leave
- 401(k) + Employer Match
- Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
- Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
- Monthly Wellness stipend
- Learning and development stipend
- Generous and flexible vacation
- Company-wide Winter holiday shutdown
- Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesIstioAWSEKSECSRDSVPCEC2S3observability
Soft Skills
problem solvingiterating on feedbackownershipcollaborationcommunication