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 a Software Engineer on the Search Engineering team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable, multi-tenant services and APIs that serve as the foundation of Search platform. You will define and champion the long-term technical vision, ensuring our platform aligns with company goals and industry best practices. Your expertise will drive the evolution of our infrastructure, indexing pipelines, and core search experiences to solve hard data retrieval problems for developers and customers alike.
You will collaborate closely with application teams, infrastructure engineers, and product managers to translate business needs into robust platform services. Your contributions will enhance the scalability, performance, and security of our platform while fostering innovation and efficiency across engineering teams. If you are passionate about building high-impact, foundational search services and enjoy working in a dynamic, cross-functional environment, this role is for you.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Own projects end-to-end, from design and prototyping to deployment and large-scale rollout.
- Define and champion the long-term technical vision, ensuring our platform aligns with industry best practices and company goals.
- Collaborate effectively with stakeholders such as application teams, infrastructure teams, and PMs to understand requirements and translate them into scalable infrastructure and platform services.
- Design and implement resilient APIs, distributed systems, and core infrastructure services that serve both internal and external developers.
- Ensure high availability, performance, and security through proactive monitoring, testing, and optimization.
- Mentor and support other engineers, fostering technical excellence and knowledge sharing across the team.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, tooling, and architectural decisions.
- Search Systems: Have significant experience building, scaling, and optimizing search systems at scale. Experience with one of the following: Opensearch/Elasticsearch/Lucene/Solr is a requirement.
- Platform Experience: 5+ years of experience designing and implementing highly scalable multi-tenant services & APIs with well-defined Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for internal developers.
- Technical Vision and Influence: Ability to define and execute a multi-year platform strategy that improves system scalability, developer experience, and operational efficiency.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Proven ability to collaborate with application teams, infrastructure teams, and product managers to translate business needs into platform capabilities.
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.
- Real-Time Data Technologies: Hands-on experience with technologies like Elastic/OpenSearch, Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, or Flink.
- Infrastructure Management: Experience with deployment and configuration management tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and container systems like Kubernetes or Amazon ECS.
HOW WE WORK
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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We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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Our office is located in the heart of the cultural center of SoMa. Our convenient location near Union Square is within walking distance to great restaurants and cafes. If you prefer public transportation, there are several options nearby including BART, MUNI trains, and buses.
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