Benchling
On a mission to unlock the power of biotechnology and empower our global customers to get to milestones & market faster.
501 - 1000
Software Engineer, Data Platform (Search)
August 21
🏢 In-office - San Francisco
Benchling
On a mission to unlock the power of biotechnology and empower our global customers to get to milestones & market faster.
501 - 1000
Description
• Benchling is on a mission to accelerate the pace of life sciences research. • The Search team owns and operates the search infrastructure and UX for discovery of data in Benchling. • 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.
Requirements
• 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)
Benefits
• 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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