Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join BenchSci's growing Engineering Team as a Staff Engineer, Data! You will collaborate with multiple teams, contribute to setting technical direction, drive secure data architecture, and decouple team work for efficient releases. You will be involved in all aspects of software development, translating product vision into technical solutions. This role involves mentoring engineers, advocating for the team, and leading the engineering team towards effective decisions. You will help BenchSci scale as it improves scientific discovery.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional development experience, with 2+ years at the Staff level
• Expertise in data management practices, including approaches to capturing provenance, versioning, and disaster recovery
• Experience working with secure data, including compliance with regulations like HIPAA and GDPR
• Expertise with data processing engines such as Apache Beam and Spark
• Experience working with SaaS products in a fast-paced Agile environment
• The ability to lead the engineering team towards the decisions they make while minimizing friction
• The ability to translate business concerns into technical implementations
• Experience with mentoring technical teams
• Experience with big data with integrated ML inference transformations
• The ability to communicate trade-offs in approaches to security, speed to ship, and performance
• Domain expertise in either machine learning, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure
• The ability to provide constructive feedback to other individual contributors while showing a sense of empathy, tact, thoughtfulness, and respect

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with multiple teams working on key customer features and our own internal development projects
• Contribute to setting technical and architectural direction for our Data Engineering teams with a focus on expanding the scope of our products and our ability to make life scientists more effective
• Drive the architecture of BenchSci to help us handle data more securely
• Decouple work done by teams to allow for more independent work and smaller feature releases
• Be involved in all aspects of software development, working to create and maintain the most reliable, secure, performant, and high throughput service for our customers by using the latest cloud technology (this can range from setting high-level technical direction down to implementation)
• Translate the product vision into tangible technical solutions for execution by engineering teams
• Be an inspiring mentor to other engineers
• Be an advocate for us and its engineering team through several channels

Preferred Qualifications

• Successful delivery of at least one major project in a domain space that is pertinent to BenchSci. Relevant domain areas may include, but are not limited to: machine learning, information retrieval, or distributed systems
• You have built Generative AI-focused solutions (for example, RAG-based applications or LLM-based extraction pipelines)

Benefits

• 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!