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Benchling

Software Engineer, Tools and Automation

Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: California.
Location as listed by the employer: “San Francisco, CA”
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About this role

Benchling is hiring for a Software Engineer, Tools and Automation role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems, with strong systems design and integration fundamentals.
  • 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 serv…
  • 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 framew…
  • Track record of going from zero to one: a platform, function, or product area you built up from scratch and scaled.
  • Experience operating in regulated or security-sensitive environments. Solid grasp of enterprise security fundamentals — encryption, access controls, audit logging, secrets management.
  • Comfortable exercising technical leadership independent of positional authority. You set direction, raise the bar in design reviews, and grow other engineers through influence.

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