Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Home > Python programming jobs

Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure in USA

Benchling
Full time
Email

USA
10/23/2026
Report

San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Own infrastructure projects end to end, from technical design and prototyping through production rollout and operational handoff.
Build and maintain internal applications, APIs, automation, CLIs, Slack apps, serverless services, and AI-powered assistants for cloud infrastructure workflows.
Own AWS foundation components including Kubernetes/EKS, networking, secrets and PKI, security capabilities, and observability.
Operate and improve Terraform Cloud, reusable Terraform modules, infrastructure-as-code release systems, and policy-as-code guardrails.
Build cloud cost visibility, anomaly alerting, cost allocation, and usage-trend analysis capabilities.
Contribute to observability tooling, vendor relationships, and monitoring-stack cost and performance decisions.
Make architectural decisions, align multiple teams, and establish technical direction and standards.
Operate production systems through on-call participation, incident response, postmortems, and root-cause analysis.
Partner with internal platform users, mentor teammates, and improve engineering tooling and practices.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
Strong software engineering fundamentals in coding, testing, debugging, API design, and system design.
Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language such as Python, Go, or TypeScript.
Hands-on AWS experience, including understanding of compute, storage, networking, and security.
Production experience with infrastructure-as-code, ideally Terraform at meaningful scale.
Working knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based platforms.
Ability to independently scope and deliver complex, ambiguous, multi-month projects from proposal through production.
Experience writing technical design documents, communicating tradeoffs, making architectural decisions, and aligning multiple teams.
Comfort working across development and operations, diagnosing production problems, and participating in an on-call rotation.
Clear written communication, strong documentation habits, and collaborative work with internal platform users.
Preferred experience with cloud cost management, HashiCorp Vault, AWS networking at scale, internal developer tooling, LLM-powered tools, observability platforms, regulated or multi-region infrastructure, GitOps, policy-as-code, technical leadership, mentoring, or AI-assisted development tools.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid work arrangement prioritizing in-office collaboration, with employees expected onsite three days per week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

Salary: $195k - $265k/yr

Benchling

We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era. When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into ...

Similar positions

Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning

Anduril Industries
Full time

USA
10/25/2026
Salary: $190k - $252k/yr

Broomfield, CO

2027 Software Engineer

Point72
Full time

Others
10/25/2026

Bengaluru, India

Staff Software Engineer | AI

LawPay
Full time

Remote
10/25/2026
Salary: $150k-$190k

United States

Senior Mission Software Engineer

Varda Space Industries
Full time

USA
10/25/2026
Salary: $169k - $216k/yr

El Segundo, CA

Software Engineer, AI Integrations

Zyte
Full time

Remote
10/25/2026
Salary: Competitive

Poland