We hire software engineers for this team because strong programming, systems design, and problem-solving skills are the most durable foundation for infrastructure impact. You will independently scope and own meaningful, multi-quarter pieces of our platform end to end, from an ambiguous starting point to a production rollout and operational handoff, building paved roads that make the secure, reliable, and efficient path the default for engineers across Benchling.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Own projects end-to-end, from initial design and tech plan, to prototype, to production rollout and operational handoff.
Design, build, and maintain internal applications, APIs, automation, and tooling (CLIs, Slack apps, serverless services, and AI-powered assistants) that support Benchling's cloud platform and infrastructure workflows.
Own parts of our AWS foundation, including Kubernetes (EKS), networking, secrets and PKI, and the security and observability capabilities around them, with clear SLOs, runbooks, and actionable telemetry.
Advance our infrastructure-as-code practices at scale: operate and improve our Terraform Cloud release system, reusable Terraform modules, and the tooling around them, with policy-as-code guardrails that let service teams self-serve safely.
Drive cloud cost governance as an engineering discipline: build cost visibility and anomaly alerting, allocate shared platform costs to the services that drive them, analyze usage trends.
Contribute to observability tooling, vendor relationships, and the cost and performance tradeoffs of our monitoring stack.
Make architectural decisions that other teams build on, drive alignment across multiple teams, and help set technical direction and standards for the areas you own.
Operate and improve production systems, including on-call, incident response, blameless postmortems, and root-cause analysis, and use what you learn to reduce toil.
Partner with engineers across Benchling to understand internal customer needs, mentor teammates through design reviews and tech plan feedback, and help mature our tooling, best practices, and engineering processes.
Check out our engineering blog https://benchling.engineering/ for examples of past work.
How We Run Terraform At Scale https://benchling.engineering/how-we-run-terraform-at-scale-da7bb75dc394: how we operate Terraform Cloud across hundreds of workspaces and the custom tooling we built around it.
Building an LLM-Powered Slackbot https://benchling.engineering/building-an-llm-powered-slackbot-557a6241e993: how we built a knowledge base on Amazon Bedrock that answers developer questions in Slack.
QUALIFICATIONS
8+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability, platform, or infrastructure engineering
Have strong software engineering fundamentals (coding, testing, debugging, API and system design) and proficiency in at least one general-purpose language such as Python, Go, or TypeScript
Have hands-on experience with AWS (for example EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3) and understand how compute, storage, networking, and security fit together
Have production experience with infrastructure-as-code, ideally Terraform at meaningful scale
Have working knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based platforms
Have a track record of independently scoping and delivering complex, ambiguous, multi-month projects from proposal to production, including writing technical design documents and communicating tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Have made architectural decisions that other engineers and teams build on, and driven alignment across multiple teams
Are comfortable working across development and operations, including diagnosing hard production problems under pressure and participating in an on-call rotation
Communicate clearly in writing, document your work well, and enjoy collaborating with internal platform users
Clear and effective communicator, especially in cross-functional settings
Nice to have
Experience with cloud cost management (cost allocation, tagging strategies, commitment purchasing, unit economics)
Experience with secrets and PKI infrastructure such as HashiCorp Vault
Experience with AWS networking at scale (VPC design, Transit Gateway, multi-region connectivity)
Experience building internal developer tooling such as CLIs, bots, or serverless services, including LLM-powered tools (for example retrieval-augmented generation on Amazon Bedrock)
Experience with observability platforms and managing vendor relationships for engineering tooling
Experience operating infrastructure in regulated (for example GxP) or multi-region environments
Experience with GitOps and policy-as-code approaches to infrastructure change management
Experience as a technical lead or mentor
Experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering and operational work
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).
Read our blog here https://benchling.engineering/infra-at-scale-agents-tools-and-infra-as-code-105645ea7b58.
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We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
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