Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Kubernetes

Benchling

full-time

Posted on: 9/28/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $186,622 - $252,488 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

AWSCloudGoJavaKubernetesMicroservicesPython

About the role

Design, scale, and re-architect Kubernetes infrastructure for performance, reliability, and global reach
Lead the migration of our core monolith to Kubernetes, ensuring security, scalability, and resilience
Build multi-tenant, secure execution environments for untrusted customer code and containers
Develop systems for observability, monitoring, and automated remediation that raise the bar for SRE practices
Collaborate with engineering, product, and science teams to deliver infrastructure that empowers life science R&D
Share knowledge and help grow the next generation of infra engineers at Benchling
Drive efforts to simplify and scale cluster architecture and re-platform Benchling’s largest applications onto Kubernetes

Strong Kubernetes expertise — you’ve operated, scaled, and bent clusters to your will
5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Infrastructure-focused Software Engineer
Strong coding ability in Python, Go, or Java to build scalable infrastructure services
Experience with AWS or other major cloud platforms
Knowledge of virtualization and microservices architectures
A mindset for secure, multi-tenant, high-availability environments
Experience designing systems to safely run customer-provided code and containers
Experience with observability, monitoring, and automated remediation

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
Generous home office setup 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
Flexible hybrid work arrangement (expected on-site 3 days/week)

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

KubernetesPythonGoJavaAWSvirtualizationmicroservicesobservabilitymonitoringautomated remediation

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