Security Data Engineer, Benchling
$146.1-219.5k
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Job no longer available
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$146.1-219.5k
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
- 5+ years of working on backend infrastructure/data systems or with application/infrastructure logging pipelines
- 4+ years of those years of experience in Security Engineering or related experience
- Experience writing code, designing systems and data workflows, optimizing data processing algorithms, and systems to support security data analytics
- In-Depth knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure and its associated security suites (e.g., IAM, GuardDuty, Inspector, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, etc)
- Familiarity with modern infrastructure technologies such as: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloudformation, Kinesis
- Relevant development experience in at least one scripting language, preferably Python
- Strong communicator with both words and data - you understand what it takes to go from raw Security data to something a human understands
- Comfortable with complexity in the short term but can build towards simplicity in the long term
- Detection and Response experience (Detection Engineering, Digital Forensics, Incident Response, and/or Threat Intelligence)
- Technical leadership skills (you enjoy being a tech lead, mentoring technologists, evangelizing security and privacy)
- Plus: Contributions to the security community via talks, papers, blogs, projects, CVEs, etc
What the job involves
- Designing, constructing, testing and maintaining a robust, reliable, and scalable security data pipeline infrastructure
- Partnering with Security Incident Response Engineers on threat detection engineering (e.g alerts, searches, reports, etc.)
- Partnering with the multiple engineering teams on internal and customer facing security and privacy initiatives, ensuring that security data accessibility, quality, and reliability are taken into account
- Employing an array of technological tools to integrate with 3rd-party data systems
- Partnering with Security Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, and Software Engineering on security feature roadmaps and security architecture
- Researching new detection mechanisms for attack vectors and techniques relevant to our space and presenting findings to both internal and external audiences
- Developing set processes for data mining, data modeling, and data production
- Partnering with Security Incident Response Engineers during incident response and investigations
- Evaluating external tooling, developing new automation and tooling
- Helping to rapidly scale our team. As a member of the security team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our own tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
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
Insights
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
Founders
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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