Engineering Leader, Infrastructure

About this role

Lead a team of infrastructure engineers at Benchling, a biotech AI platform used by 200,000+ scientists. This highly technical leadership role combines hands-on cloud infrastructure expertise with people management, focusing on reliability, scalability, security, and developer productivity in a regulated environment.

What you'll do

• Build and mentor an infrastructure engineering team across all experience levels through hiring, coaching, and career development
• Deliver critical infrastructure initiatives including reliability, scalability, cost optimization, security, and compliance practices
• Drive SRE principles into operations: implement service-level thinking, operational readiness, automation, and resiliency patterns
• Improve incident response and on-call health through better processes, postmortems, and cross-team collaboration
• Evolve AWS cloud foundations including networking, compute patterns, and Kubernetes-based services
• Ensure infrastructure changes meet regulated biotech requirements for auditability and traceability while maintaining team velocity

What they're looking for

• People leadership and team management
• AWS infrastructure (EKS/ECS, RDS, VPC, EC2, S3)
• Kubernetes and services platform patterns (service mesh, ingress, service discovery)
• SRE practices and incident management
• Python and Go programming
• Observability tools (Datadog, FireHydrant, Sentry)
• Regulated environment compliance (GxP/biotech)
• Cross-functional collaboration and communication

Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with 3 days/week on-site in San Francisco
• Work with cutting-edge AI and biotech technology
• Lead a team at a company trusted by 200,000+ scientists and top biopharma
• AI fluency development integrated into role