What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer, Data Platform position at Benchling?
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.
ROLE OVERVIEW
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.
QUALIFICATIONS
HOW WE WORK
Flexible Hybrid Work : We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week.
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 $157,250 to $212,750.
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 :
LI-Hybrid
BI-Hybrid
LI-MD1
Benchling welcomes everyone.
We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
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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Salary : $157,250 - $212,750
