Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

The role

You will design, build, and operate platforms, services, and tooling to enable engineering teams to ship software reliably, securely, and cost-effectively. This work involves managing AWS foundations including compute, networking, secrets, identity, and observability.

What you will do

• Own projects end-to-end from design and tech plan to production rollout and operational handoff
• Design, build, and maintain internal applications, APIs, automation, and tooling
• Own parts of the AWS foundation including Kubernetes, networking, secrets, and PKI
• Advance infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform Cloud and reusable modules
• Drive cloud cost governance through visibility, alerting, and usage analysis
• Contribute to observability tooling and vendor relationships
• Make architectural decisions and drive alignment across multiple teams
• Operate and improve production systems including on-call and incident response
• Partner with engineers to understand needs and mentor teammates

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability, platform, or infrastructure engineering
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in coding, testing, debugging, API and system design
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language such as Python, Go, or TypeScript
• Hands-on experience with AWS (for example EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3)
• Production experience with infrastructure-as-code, ideally Terraform at meaningful scale
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based platforms
• Track record of independently scoping and delivering complex, ambiguous, multi-month projects
• Experience making architectural decisions and driving alignment across multiple teams
• Comfortable working across development and operations including on-call rotation
• Clear and effective communicator in writing and cross-functional settings

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud cost management
• Experience with secrets and PKI infrastructure such as HashiCorp Vault
• Experience with AWS networking at scale
• Experience building internal developer tooling including LLM-powered tools
• Experience with observability platforms and managing vendor relationships
• Experience operating infrastructure in regulated or multi-region environments
• Experience with GitOps and policy-as-code approaches
• Experience as a technical lead or mentor
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools

Before you apply

• You'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion during the interview process

About the company

Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work.