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Software Engineer, Tools and Automation in USA

  • Benchling
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Define architecture and technical direction for internal tooling, workflow orchestration, integrations, data access, service boundaries, observability, and agentic systems where appropriate.
  • Write production code for at least half of the time during the team’s first year and build the team’s testing, deployment, and production-support practices.
  • Graduate departmental prototypes into production-grade systems and operate them under a you-build-it-you-run-it model.
  • Design systems with multi-tenant isolation, secrets management, audit logging, encryption, role-based access controls, and human-in-the-loop controls.
  • Develop templates, SDKs, sandboxes, and production patterns that enable departmental teams and internal AI builders.
  • Partner with data, platform, infrastructure, security, and business teams to scope problems and deliver internal systems.
  • Set standards for code quality, testing, evaluation, documentation, on-call practices, mentoring, and technical hiring.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems with strong systems design and integration fundamentals.
  • Demonstrated experience building and operating internal tools, automation, systems integrations, APIs, SaaS platform connections, or internal services used by colleagues.
  • Production experience with at least two of Python, TypeScript/Node.js, and Go, with comfort working across the stack.
  • Practical experience applying LLMs appropriately in workflows and evaluating when deterministic approaches are preferable.
  • Experience building a platform, function, or product area from zero to one and scaling it.
  • Experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments, including encryption, access controls, audit logging, and secrets management.
  • Ability to provide technical leadership through influence, design reviews, mentoring, and independent decision-making.
  • Strong communication skills with non-technical stakeholders and a product-first approach to shipping software.
  • Interest in learning about life science; prior knowledge is not required.
  • Preferred qualifications include enterprise SaaS, life sciences, or biotech experience; LLM orchestration and tool-integration familiarity; experience with Temporal, Prefect, or Airflow; familiarity with SOC 2, HIPAA, or GxP; internal developer-platform experience; coaching non-engineers on AI tooling; and model research or ML engineering experience.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work arrangement with in-office work prioritized three days per week: 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 ...

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