Software Engineer, Data Platform (Search)

ROLE OVERVIEW

Benchling is on a mission to accelerate the pace of life sciences research. To do that, we build a suite of tools that scientists use daily to solve humanity's most pressing problems. Some of these tools help scientists better collaborate—like our electronic lab notebook & workflow product. Others help scientists do their research—like our molecular biology suite, which scientists use to analyze & work with DNA. All of the tools that we build require that the data in Benchling reflects the actions that scientists are taking in the physical world. That's where the Inventors team comes in.

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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 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)

SALARY RANGE

Benchling takes a market-based approach to pay.  The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location. For this role the base salary range is $177,735 to $240,465. 

To help you determine which zone applies to your location, please see this resource. If you have questions regarding a specific location's zone designation, please contact a recruiter for additional information.

• Competitive salary and equity
• Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
• Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
• Monthly Wellness stipend
• Learning and development stipend
• Generous and flexible vacation
• Company-wide Summer & Winter holiday shutdown
• Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries

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