Data Platform Software Engineer, Benchling
Search
$177.7-240.5k
+ Equity
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Be an early applicant
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$177.7-240.5k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology and empower their global customers to get to milestones & market faster.
Role
Who you are
- Have 8+ years of experience or a proven track record in software engineering
- 2 years of working with Elasticsearch is strongly desired
- Experience with data processing technologies Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, Flink, or other open-source or commercial software
- You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code
- Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback
- Comfortable with complexity in the short term but can build towards simplicity in the long term
- Strong communicator with both words and data - you understand what it takes to go from raw data to something a human understands
- Willing to work onsite in our SF office 3 days a week
- Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must)
What the job involves
- The Search team owns and operates the search infrastructure and UX for discovery of data in Benchling
- We recently rolled out Elasticsearch as our search infra (see the engineering blog)
- In addition to document searches, the team also supports advanced chemical and biological searches
- We are looking for a lead engineer to join our team to work closely with the product teams to deliver search driven capabilities to our customers
- Build and operate the end-to-end platform for search and discovery at Benchling
- Support end-to-end availability, reliability and performance of our Search systems
- Contribute to algorithms and infrastructure for scientific searches
- Optimize and scale our change data capture and indexing pipelines
- Improve search coverage, and reduce implementation time for new features for applications teams
- Designing and creating CI/CD pipelines for platform provisioning, full lifecycle management. Building the platform control panel to operate the fleet of systems efficiently
Our take
As the pioneer of the R&D Cloud, Benchling offers a cloud-based informatics platform tailored for biotechnology. Its platform enables scientists across the globe to make breakthrough discoveries and bring next-gen biotechnology to market.
There’s a sincerity and consciousness to Benchling’s approach that stands out. This has led to the company being adopted by over 200,000 scientists from 1,000+ companies and 7,500 academic and research institutions globally (including 23andMe, Moderna, and the U.S. Department of Defense).
The rapidly advancing Biotechnology industry was at the forefront of the so-called “fourth industrial revolution”, with the industry driving $2 to $4 trillion per year of economic impact over the next 20 years.
Benchling has put itself in a position of immense value within the industry with its expanding offerings. Off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $411.9m
Company benefits
- 4 months paid parental leave
- 401k plan
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Work from home opportunities
- 100% premiums covered for health, dental, & vision
- Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
Company values
- Constant Curiosity - Like the scientists we serve, we approach life with a sense of constant curiosity
- Scientist First - We’re relentlessly focused on taking a scientist-first approach
- Impact Driven - We commit our time, energy, and resources to efforts that will drive maximum impact
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Sajith Wickramasekara
(CEO)Sajith studied at MIT before spending 2 years as a Research Assistant at Duke University Medical Centre and Liquidia Technologies. They used this biotechnology understanding to found Benchling in June 2012, serving as CEO since.
Ashu Singhal
(President)They previously co-founded Hotspots.io which was later acquired by Twitter in 2012. After this, became Staff Software Engineer at Twitter for 2 years, leaving to co-found Benchling.
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