infrastructure
Posted Mar 2Engineering Leader, Infrastructure
at Benchling
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- - Own delivery and outcomes for critical infrastructure and services-platform initiatives including reliability, scalability, cost, security posture, and compliance-aligned engineering practices.
- - Drive reliability improvements using pragmatic SRE principles: service-level thinking (SLIs/SLOs), operational readiness, automation, and resiliency patterns.
Requirements
- We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
- AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years.
- But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
- Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D.
- Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows.
- experience building modern cloud infrastructure and services platforms, paired with strong people leadership.
- Experience with incident management and managing SRE teams is a plus.
- - Build and evolve cloud foundations on AWS, including network and compute patterns and Kubernetes-based services.
- experience including managing a team across a range of levels. - Strong technical depth with previous direct, hands-on
- experience in software engineering and infrastructure/platform engineering. - Production
- experience operating on AWS (e.g., EKS/ECS, RDS, VPC, EC2, S3) and building scalable internal platforms. - Strong
- experience with Kubernetes and services-platform patterns (e.g., service mesh such as Istio, ingress, service discovery, workload isolation). -
- Experience building or evolving observability and operational tooling (Datadog, FireHydrant, Sentry, or similar). - Ability to collaborate across teams and influence without authority; strong written and verbal communication. - Comfort working in a stack largely in Python (Go also highly appreciated), with TypeScript in the broader ecosystem (especially for platform tooling and integrations). NICE TO HAVE
- Experience managing or partnering closely with SRE teams. -
- Experience in regulated environments (GxP, biotech, healthcare, finance), including change control, auditability, and SDLC/process rigor.
Experience
- QUALIFICATIONS. - 3+ years of people leadership
Benefits
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
Additional details
- Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps.
- Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
- ROLE OVERVIEW Benchling is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a team within Infrastructure Engineering.
- This is a highly technical leadership role for someone with hands-on
- You’ll work closely across Infrastructure and Platform.
- You'll be partnering with product engineering teams and other leaders to improve reliability, scalability, security, and developer productivity in a regulated environment.
- We’re specifically looking for a leader with a software engineering and infrastructure background, not just operations.
- RESPONSIBILITIES - Lead and grow a team of infrastructure engineers including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development across all levels of the team.
- - Strengthen incident response: improve on-call health, incident processes, postmortems, and follow-up execution in collaboration with product engineering and platform teams.
- - Partner cross-functionally with Platform Engineering, Security, and Product Engineering to align priorities and deliver shared roadmaps.