Hiring: Software Engineer, Tools and Automation Company: Benchling Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:48:46 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Airflow, CI/CD, Encryption, HIPAA, LLM, Node.js, Prefect, Product Management, Python, R, SOC 2, SaaS, Systems Design, Systems Integration, TypeScript About the job Experience: •7+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems, with strong systems design and integration fundamentals. Required Skills: •Check out our engineering blog for examples of past work across Benchling. •Enable builders across the company: Coach power users and departmental teams on production patterns, develop the criteria that decide which prototypes graduate into enterprise-grade systems, and build the internal-facing developer experience — templates, SDKs, sandboxes — that lets builders outside this team ship safely. •Elevate engineering standards: Set the bar for code quality, testing and evaluation, documentation, and on-call practices. Drive technical hiring through interview loop design, bar-raising in interviews, and representing the team to senior candidates. Mentor engineers on the team and other AI builders across the company. Qualifications: •A track record of building internal tools, automation, and systems integrations that colleagues depended on daily - not customer-facing product work alone. You have wired together APIs, SaaS platforms, and internal services, and you owned the result in production. •Demonstrated understanding of how to optimize workloads across deterministic and non-deterministic capabilities, striking the right architectural balance for the needs of the specific solution being implemented. •Production experience with at least two of: Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go; comfort with working across the stack. •Practical experience applying LLMs where they earn their place in a workflow - and the judgment to recognize where they do not. We care that you shipped something that worked and that people kept using, not which framework you reached for. •Track record of going from zero to one: a platform, function, or product area you built up from scratch and scaled. •Comfortable exercising technical leadership independent of positional authority. You set direction, raise the bar in design reviews, and grow other engineers through influence. •Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real-world impact of your work. •Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of platforms. •Strong communication skills with non-technical audiences specifically. You can sit with a finance, legal, or sales ops team, understand their workflow well enough to challenge it, and come back with an engineering plan they recognize as their own problem - then explain the tradeoffs in their language. •Interest in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required). Compensation: •$195,000 - $265,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!