# Software Engineer, Tools and Automation

**Company:** [Benchling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/benchling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $195k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, System Design, API Integrations, CI/CD, Workflow Orchestration, LLMs, Enterprise Security, Encryption, Access Control, Audit Logging, Secrets Management, Threat Modeling
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Founding engineer responsible for the architecture, development, and operation of Benchling’s internal tooling and automation systems. The role requires 7+ years of production software engineering experience, strong integration and security fundamentals, and hands-on technical leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define foundational architecture for internal tooling and automation, including SaaS integrations, workflow orchestration, data access, service boundaries, observability, and agent architecture where appropriate.
- Build and ship production systems, including CI/CD, testing, deployment infrastructure, and hardened versions of departmental prototypes.
- Own production support under a “you build it, you run it” model.
- Design for multi-tenant isolation, secrets management, audit logging, payload encryption, role-based access controls, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Partner with Security Engineering on threat modeling, including prompt injection, tool misuse, and data exfiltration risks.
- Coach internal builders and develop production-readiness criteria, templates, SDKs, sandboxes, and developer experience.
- Partner with data analytics teams on source-of-truth datasets and pipelines.
- Translate stakeholder needs into scoped engineering problems and shipped systems.
- Establish standards for code quality, testing, evaluation, documentation, and on-call practices.
- Drive technical hiring, mentor engineers, and lead through influence.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
- Strong systems design and integration fundamentals.
- Experience building internal tools, automation, and systems integrations used daily by colleagues.
- Experience integrating APIs, SaaS platforms, and internal services and operating the resulting systems in production.
- Understanding of balancing deterministic and non-deterministic capabilities in system architecture.
- Production experience with at least two of Python, TypeScript/Node.js, and Go.
- Practical experience applying large language models to workflows, with sound judgment about when they are appropriate.
- Experience taking a platform, function, or product area from zero to one and scaling it.
- Experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
- Understanding of enterprise security fundamentals, including encryption, access controls, audit logging, and secrets management.
- Ability to provide technical leadership without positional authority.
- Product-first approach and ability to ship quickly.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with agentic systems, tool integration, state management, and evaluation.
- Experience developing internal developer platforms, SDKs, templates, or sandboxes.
- Experience with workflow orchestration and enterprise SaaS estates.
- Experience with threat modeling for AI-enabled systems.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: $195,000–$265,000.

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