We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our growing Platform Infrastructure Engineering Group. In this role, you will work closely with key technical partners across the organization to ensure that BenchSci’s development tooling and engineering practices can support our long-term growth. Reporting to the Engineering Manager of Infrastructure, you will provide technical leadership across several areas within the team, lead complex projects, participate in project planning, and actively contribute to BenchSci's technical roadmap. You will work with other individual contributors while playing a pivotal role in helping us scale as we continue to impact scientific discovery long-term.
You Will:
- Collaborate with our infrastructure team to drive high-quality designs to improve and scale our infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipelines.
- Partner with various engineering teams and identify opportunities to improve our development tooling, frameworks and infrastructure.
- Partner closely with other individual contributors and Engineering Managers to devise and refine requirements to create development tooling, build systems and services that accelerate the velocity of our engineers and improve their quality of life.
- Lead software and system design projects by leveraging cloud-native design patterns and injecting your cloud expertise into the entire development lifecycle.
- Act as an advocate for the company and its engineering team through various channels
You Have:
- A minimum of 5 years of professional development experience, with two years at a Senior level developing, maintaining and scaling CI/CD pipelines.
- Developing, maintaining and scaling build tools supporting large monorepo codebases.
- Experience working with build tools like Bazel (or Buck) considered an asset.
- Working with infrastructure-as-code solutions such as Terraform or KCC
- Solid understanding of Python programming language and its ecosystem
- Solid understanding of containerization, and extensive experience with Docker
- Working with any of the major public cloud providers like GCP, AWS or Azure
- Ability to translate business concerns into technical implementations
- Ability to guide individual contributors towards making a decision while minimizing friction and using influence as effectively as direct control.
- A track record of planning and executing complex projects that impact multiple engineering teams.
Benefits and Perks:
An engaging remote-first culture
A great compensation package that includes BenchSci equity options
A robust vacation policy plus an additional vacation day every year
Company closures for 14 more days throughout the year
Flex time for sick days, personal days, and religious holidays
Comprehensive health and dental benefits.
Annual learning & development budget
A one-time home office set-up budget to use upon joining BenchSci
An annual lifestyle spending account allowance
Generous parental leave benefits with a top-up plan or paid time off options
The ability to save for your retirement coupled with a company match!
About BenchSci:
BenchSci's mission is to exponentially increase the speed and quality of life-saving research and development. We empower scientists to run more successful experiments with the world's most advanced, biomedical artificial intelligence software platform.
Backed by Generation Investment Management, TCV, Inovia, F-Prime, Golden Ventures, and Google's AI fund, Gradient Ventures, we provide an indispensable tool for scientists that accelerates research at 16 top 20 pharmaceutical companies and over 4,300 leading academic centers. We're a certified Great Place to Work®, and top-ranked company on Glassdoor.
Our Culture:
BenchSci relentlessly builds on its strong foundation of culture. We put team members first, knowing that they're the organization's beating heart. We invest as much in our people as our products. Our culture fosters transparency, collaboration, and continuous learning.
We value each other's differences and always look for opportunities to embed equity into the fabric of our work. We foster diversity, autonomy, and personal growth, and provide resources to support motivated self-leaders in continuous improvement.
You will work with high-impact, highly skilled, and intelligent experts motivated to drive impact and fulfill a meaningful mission. We empower you to unleash your full potential, do your best work, and thrive. Here you will be challenged to stretch yourself to achieve the seemingly impossible. Learn more about our culture.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: We're committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We believe that improving diversity, equity and inclusion is our collective responsibility, and this belief guides our DEI journey. Learn more about our DEI initiatives.
Accessibility Accommodations: Should you require any accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs. Please reach out to [email protected].
