Benchling

4 months ago

Engineering Leader, Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Engineering Manager leading a team within Infrastructure Engineering to build modern cloud infrastructure and services platforms. Focus on reliability, scalability, security, and developer productivity in a regulated biotech environment, with hands-on software engineering and SRE experience across AWS, Kubernetes, and platform tooling.

Location: San Francisco

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead and grow a team of infrastructure engineers including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development across all levels of the team.
•Own delivery and outcomes for critical infrastructure and services-platform initiatives including reliability, scalability, cost, security posture, and compliance-aligned engineering practices.
•Drive reliability improvements using pragmatic SRE principles: service-level thinking (SLIs/SLOs), operational readiness, automation, and resiliency patterns.
•Strengthen incident response: improve on-call health, incident processes, postmortems, and follow-up execution in collaboration with product engineering and platform teams.
•Build and evolve cloud foundations on AWS, including network and compute patterns and Kubernetes-based services.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 226,223 - 306,066 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

•5+ years of people leadership experience including managing a team across a range of levels
•Production experience operating on AWS (EKS/ECS, RDS, VPC, EC2, S3) and building scalable internal platforms
•Strong experience with Kubernetes and services-platform patterns (e.g., Istio, ingress, service discovery, workload isolation)
•Experience building or evolving observability and operational tooling (Datadog, FireHydrant, Sentry, or similar)
•Comfort working in a stack largely in Python (Go also highly appreciated), with TypeScript in the broader ecosystem (especially for platform tooling and integrations)

Experience:5+ yearsCloud infrastructureInfrastructureSREBiotech

Skills:PythonGoTypeScriptAWSKubernetesIstioDatadogSentryFireHydrantEKSECSRDSVPCEC2S3

Tech Stack:PythonGoTypeScriptAWSKubernetesIstioDatadogSentryFireHydrantEKSECSRDSVPCEC2S3

Company Brief

Benchling

Provides a cloud-based R&D Cloud and laboratory informatics platform that centralizes scientific data, streamlines experiments, and accelerates biotechnology and life-science research and development for biotech, pharma, and academic teams.

Industry: Biotech

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Revenue: USD 100M to 250M

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2012

Glassdoor: 3.5

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Benchling

4 months ago

Engineering Leader, Infrastructure

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 5 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: San Francisco

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead and grow a team of infrastructure engineers including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development across all levels of the team.
•Own delivery and outcomes for critical infrastructure and services-platform initiatives including reliability, scalability, cost, security posture, and compliance-aligned engineering practices.
•Drive reliability improvements using pragmatic SRE principles: service-level thinking (SLIs/SLOs), operational readiness, automation, and resiliency patterns.
•Strengthen incident response: improve on-call health, incident processes, postmortems, and follow-up execution in collaboration with product engineering and platform teams.
•Build and evolve cloud foundations on AWS, including network and compute patterns and Kubernetes-based services.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 226,223 - 306,066 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

•5+ years of people leadership experience including managing a team across a range of levels
•Production experience operating on AWS (EKS/ECS, RDS, VPC, EC2, S3) and building scalable internal platforms
•Strong experience with Kubernetes and services-platform patterns (e.g., Istio, ingress, service discovery, workload isolation)
•Experience building or evolving observability and operational tooling (Datadog, FireHydrant, Sentry, or similar)
•Comfort working in a stack largely in Python (Go also highly appreciated), with TypeScript in the broader ecosystem (especially for platform tooling and integrations)

Experience:5+ yearsCloud infrastructureInfrastructureSREBiotech

Skills:PythonGoTypeScriptAWSKubernetesIstioDatadogSentryFireHydrantEKSECSRDSVPCEC2S3

Tech Stack:PythonGoTypeScriptAWSKubernetesIstioDatadogSentryFireHydrantEKSECSRDSVPCEC2S3

Company Brief

Benchling

Industry: Biotech

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Revenue: USD 100M to 250M

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2012

Glassdoor: 3.5

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor