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Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it, from the medicines we take, to the crops we grow, the materials we wear, and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology.
Benchling’s mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world’s most innovative biotech companies use Benchling’s R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market.
Come help us bring modern software to modern science.
As one of Benchling's Data Platform engineers, you'll join a rapidly growing engineering team and form the foundation of our data pillar, encompassing customer-facing products and internal-developer services/tools. You will build the next generation of our Data Platform services that enable internal developers to build multi-tenant applications/services that consume near real-time data-changes. Benchling is growing quickly, and you'll set the bar for high-quality data and a metrics-driven culture as we scale. You'll serve as a key input and thought leader and work closely with the product teams to deliver data-driven capabilities to our internal and external customers.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Own projects end-to-end, from initial design, to prototype, to large-scale rollout.
- Build & operate high throughput distributed messaging platform like Kafka/kinesis to enable data change capture and data integration across Benchling.
- Define and design data transformations and pipelines for cross-functional datasets, while ensuring that data integrity and data privacy are first-class concerns regarded proactively, instead of reactively.
- Define the right Service Level Objectives for the batch & streaming pipelines, and optimize their performance.
- Designing and creating CI/CD pipelines for platform provisioning, full lifecycle management. Building the platform control panel to operate the fleet of systems efficiently.
- Work closely with the team across Application and Platform to establish best practices around usage of our data platform.
- Have 6+ years of experience or a proven track record in software engineering
- Experience with data processing technologies Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, Flink, or other open-source or commercial software
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable, distributed systems
- Strong experience with scripting language (such as Python)
- Experience with deployment and configuration management frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef and container management systems such as Kubernetes or Amazon ECS.
- Driven by creating positive impact for our customers and Benchling's business, and ultimately accelerating the pace of research in the Life Sciences
- Comfortable with complexity in the short term but can build towards simplicity in the long term
- Strong communicator with both words and data - you understand what it takes to go from raw data to something a human understands
We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).
SALARY RANGEBenchling takes a market-based approach to pay. The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location. For this role the base salary range is $165,113 to $223,388.
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- 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
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