Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it, from the medicines we take, to the crops we grow, the materials we wear, and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology.
Benchling’s mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world’s most innovative biotech companies use Benchling’s R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market.
Come help us bring modern software to modern science.
The Enterprise Lifecycle team is a newly formed engineering team dedicated to ensuring Benchling's largest customers—internationally recognizable names developing some of the world's most innovative treatments and cures—are successful in regulated environments. Our mission is to help them prove their products are safe for human consumption and navigate complex regulatory processes with confidence and efficiency. The team owns critical capabilities including auditing, document lifecycle management, exports, and backups. These are the foundational systems that ensure data integrity, compliance, and auditability across Benchling's platform.
As the engineering manager for this team, you will build and lead a team of eight engineers working on systems that enterprise customers depend on for regulatory submissions and audits. You will set technical direction, drive execution on a roadmap that balances new capabilities with platform reliability, and partner closely with product management and design to shape the future of Benchling's enterprise offerings. This role sits at the intersection of platform and product work: you will own horizontally impactful systems while directly enabling features that appear in FDA submissions and GxP-regulated workflows. You will also collaborate extensively with other engineering teams across the organization, as these systems touch nearly every part of the product.
This role is ideal for an experienced engineering manager who is energized by high-stakes, high-impact work where correctness and attention to detail matter. You will thrive here if you have a track record of building and leading strong engineering teams, enjoy navigating ambiguity on a newly formed team, and find satisfaction in solving complex problems for sophisticated enterprise users. Experience building enterprise SaaS software is a strong plus. If you are drawn to the challenge of building compliant, scalable systems that support some of the world's most important scientific work, we would love to hear from you.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Recruit, develop, and lead a team of exceptional software engineers.
- Translate strategy into execution by developing and executing quarterly plans with clear metrics and targets.
- Define and execute on a roadmap that encompasses new product development, quality improvements, and software maintenance activities. Partner closely with product management and design to define short- and long-term product strategy.
- Hold an unreasonably high bar for product quality as the teams execute their work.
- Partner closely with engineers to ensure that we make excellent technical decisions as we lay the foundations for new products and a scalable platform.
- Meet with customers to understand their science & what they need from Benchling.
- Contribute to engineering-wide organizational improvements as part of the management team.
- 3+ years of experience as an engineering manager.
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with experience as a technical lead on projects that involve multiple engineers across multiple quarters
- Experience building cloud-based web applications, ideally on both the front- and back-end
- Track record of growing high-trajectory, early-to-mid-career engineers into leaders with company-wide impact.
- Experience (and enjoy!) working directly with customers to inform your team's roadmap.
- A track record of working with cross-functional partners in product, design, sales, and marketing.
- Familiarity with software engineering management productivity tools (e.g., Jira or other bug database), as well as observability tools for logging, metrics, and alerting.
We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).
SALARY RANGEBenchling takes a market-based approach to pay. The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location. For this role the base salary range is $215,450 - $291,491.
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- Competitive total rewards package
- Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
- Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
- Four months of fully paid parental leave
- 401(k) + Employer Match
- Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
- Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
- Monthly Wellness stipend
- Learning and development stipend
- Generous and flexible vacation
- Company-wide Winter holiday shutdown
- Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries
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We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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