Engineering Manager

About Benchling

Benchling is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a team within Infrastructure Engineering. This is a highly technical leadership role for someone with hands-on experience building modern cloud infrastructure and services platforms, paired with strong people leadership. You’ll work closely across Infrastructure and Platform. You’ll be partnering with product engineering teams and other leaders to improve reliability, scalability, security, and developer productivity in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of infrastructure engineers including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development across all levels of the team
• Own delivery and outcomes for critical infrastructure and services-platform initiatives including reliability, scalability, cost, security posture, and compliance-aligned engineering practices
• Drive reliability improvements using pragmatic SRE principles: service-level thinking (SLIs/SLOs), operational readiness, automation, and resiliency patterns
• Strengthen incident response: improve on-call health, incident processes, postmortems, and follow-up execution in collaboration with product engineering and platform teams
• Build and evolve cloud foundations on AWS, including network and compute patterns and Kubernetes-based services
• Partner cross-functionally with Platform Engineering, Security, and Product Engineering to align priorities and deliver shared roadmaps
• Operate in a regulated environment (GxP/biotech): help ensure infrastructure changes are traceable, auditable, and appropriately controlled, without slowing teams down unnecessarily

Benefits

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