Software Engineer

About

Benchling is hiring a Software Engineer for our Infrastructure Engineering team to build and operate the platform that powers our product.

You’ll have the opportunity to work across a broad range of infrastructure disciplines, including cloud infrastructure in AWS, our Kubernetes-based services platform, and the observability and operational tooling that keeps systems reliable.

This role is highly collaborative: you’ll partner closely with product engineering teams to understand their needs and improve the developer experience across Benchling.

Benchling operates in a regulated environment, so you’ll help build systems with reliability, security, and auditability in mind.

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Robust healthcare benefits
• Family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• Retirement benefits