Remote Staff Software Engineer, Data

Description:

• We are looking for a Staff Engineer, Data to join our growing Engineering Team.
• You will work with key technical team members across the organization to ensure that BenchSci's technical infrastructure and codebase will support long-term growth.
• You will provide technical leadership across several functional areas within the team, lead complex projects, participate in roadmap and project planning, and contribute to BenchSci's data engineering and architecture initiatives.
• The Staff Engineer will help foster the development of other individual contributors while also playing an important role in helping us scale as we continue to improve scientific discovery.
• You will collaborate with multiple teams working on key customer features and our own internal development projects.
• You will 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.
• You will drive the architecture of BenchSci to help us handle data more securely.
• You will decouple work done by teams to allow for more independent work and smaller feature releases.
• You will 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.
• You will translate the product vision into tangible technical solutions for execution by engineering teams.
• You will be an inspiring mentor to other engineers and an advocate for us and its engineering team through several channels.

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

• You will enjoy an engaging remote-first culture.
• You will receive a great compensation package that includes BenchSci equity options.
• You will benefit from a robust vacation policy plus an additional vacation day every year.
• The company will have closures for 14 more days throughout the year.
• You will have flex time for sick days, personal days, and religious holidays.
• You will receive comprehensive health and dental benefits.
• You will have an annual learning & development budget.
• You will receive a one-time home office set-up budget to use upon joining BenchSci.
• You will have an annual lifestyle spending account allowance.
• You will enjoy generous parental leave benefits with a top-up plan or paid time off options.
• You will have the ability to save for your retirement coupled with a company match.