Software Engineer, Backend (Release Engineering)

ROLE OVERVIEW

Release Engineering is a crucial function that empowers our engineers to excel in their craft. You will be pivotal in creating tools and frameworks that enable engineers to ship changes to Benchling’s customers. Your success will enable our engineering teams to efficiently deliver high quality products. By understanding the unique challenges developers face and crafting solutions to streamline their workflows, you'll play a key role in driving innovation and fulfilling Benchling’s mission.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build and implement tooling for efficient, frictionless development, testing, and packaging for production release. 

• Iterate on developer experience improvements using qualitative and quantitative feedback.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address challenges in engineering workflows that impact developer happiness and productivity.

• Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers in engineering to make Benchling a delightful place to develop software.

• Help rapidly scale our product and team. As a member of the engineering team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Have 5+ years of experience in software engineering.

• Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code.

• Expertise with at least one web framework, preferably node or python.

• Experience working with containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)

• Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback.

• Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product.

• Have empathy for your customers and curiosity about their challenges.

• Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must).

• Willing to work onsite in our SF office 3 days a week.

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 RANGE

Benchling 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 -  $223,388. 

To help you determine which zone applies to your location, please see this resource. If you have questions regarding a specific location's zone designation, please contact a recruiter for additional information.

Total Compensation includes the following:

• 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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