Benchling
Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
$195K–$265K
San Francisco, CA · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in software engineering, site reliability, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
About the job
Build and operate Benchling’s cloud infrastructure platforms and developer tooling so engineering teams can ship and run software reliably, securely, and cost-effectively.
What you'll do
- Own infrastructure projects end to end, from design through production rollout and operational handoff.
- Build and maintain cloud platform services, automation, infrastructure-as-code, security, and observability capabilities.
- Operate production systems, including on-call and incident response, and improve reliability and cloud cost governance.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one general-purpose language, such as Python, Go, or TypeScript.
- Hands-on AWS experience and production experience with infrastructure-as-code; working knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based platforms.
- Track record delivering complex, ambiguous projects and making architectural decisions across teams; comfortable with operations and on-call.
Nice to have
- Experience with cloud cost management, secrets and PKI, AWS networking at scale, observability, or regulated and multi-region environments.
- Experience building internal developer tooling, including LLM-powered tools, or using GitOps, policy-as-code, and AI-assisted development tools.
Pay
$195K – $265K (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform Cloud, Terraform, Python, Go, TypeScript
AI focus
Build internal AI-powered assistants and tooling for infrastructure workflows; the posting also describes an AI-focused interview exercise or discussion.
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