Benchling
Data Engineer
About this role
Benchling seeks a Data Engineer to build and operate production-grade data pipelines and warehouse infrastructure supporting company-wide analytics and AI initiatives. You'll own end-to-end ELT pipelines, ensure data governance and quality, and partner with AI engineering teams to enable trustworthy data for internal AI applications.
What you'll do
- Design and operate production ELT pipelines ingesting data from Benchling product, Salesforce, and third-party systems into Snowflake with dbt modeling
- Maintain data quality, monitoring, testing, and schema versioning standards as usage scales across the organization
- Manage Snowflake access controls, PII handling, data governance policies, and warehouse cost optimization
- Support AIDE's AI engineering initiatives by providing governed, trustworthy datasets for agentic AI tooling and internal applications
- Contribute to architectural decisions on warehouse design, semantic layers, and metrics store strategy
- Monitor pipeline health and uptime, ensuring reliable data delivery to GTM, Customer Success, Product, and Finance teams
What they're looking for
- SQL and Python
- dbt and data modeling
- Snowflake or modern cloud data warehouse
- Orchestration tools (Airflow or equivalent)
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar)
- Software engineering practices (version control, CI/CD, testing)
- Data governance and PII handling
- ELT pipeline design and implementation
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Benchling
Benchling builds an AI-powered platform for biotech R&D that integrates scientific workflows and data processes to accelerate research breakthroughs. The company is hiring software engineers across full-stack, customer engineering, agentic AI, and security roles to enhance developer productivity, build production AI systems, and protect sensitive research data.
- Website
- benchling.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a production data pipeline you've owned end-to-end—what were the ingestion, transformation, and modeling challenges, and how did you handle them at scale?
- Describe your experience with dbt and how you've applied software engineering practices like testing and CI/CD to data models.