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Software Engineer – Data Platform – CDC & Search – High Seniority
| Company | Benchling |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $214646 – $290404 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years with distributed data processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Debezium, Spark, Flink)
- Hands-on with infrastructure tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform, or ECS
- Scripting in Python or similar
- Clear communicator, both in code and in writing
- Collaborative spirit to technical planning
- Curiosity and a willingness to learn
Responsibilities
- Own core systems end-to-end—from design and prototyping to deployment and scale
- Build real-time data infrastructure (CDC pipelines, search indexing and more) that powers customer analytics and platform extensibility
- Design CI/CD workflows and internal tooling that make our platform easy to operate, secure, and maintain
- Collaborate with product managers, platform architects, and internal developers to define a shared vision for data at Benchling
- Set standards for data integrity, privacy, and reliability across internal and customer-facing systems
- Champion platform engineering best practices and influence how Benchling teams interact with data at scale
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in biology not required
- Experience from FinTech, infrastructure, or consumer tech preferred
