Platform Software Engineer (Developer Experience)
Company: Benchling
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States {{REMOTE}}
Salary: $173k - $234k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-08-30
About this role
- Developer Experience is a crucial function that empowers our engineers to excel in their craft. As a technical leader in the Platform pillar, you’ll work closely with the Developer Productivity and Release Engineering teams to create tools and frameworks that enhance developer experience, with a focus on the Path to Production
- Your success will enable our engineering teams to efficiently deliver high quality products
- By understanding the unique challenges developers face and crafting solutions to streamline their workflows, you’ll play a key role in driving innovation and fulfilling Benchling’s mission
- Build and implement tooling for efficient, frictionless development, testing, and packaging for production release
- Lead the design and development of release tooling that enables code changes to reach production within 10 minutes
- Iterate on developer experience improvements using qualitative and quantitative feedback
- Implement feedback loops that integrate quality into software development workflows
- Champion effective engineering and operational patterns across the Engineering org
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address challenges in engineering workflows that impact developer happiness and productivity
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers in engineering to make Benchling a delightful place to develop software
- Help rapidly scale our product and team. As a member of the engineering team, you’ll be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring
### Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Robust healthcare benefits
- Family-forming benefits
- Four months of fully paid parental leave
- Retirement benefits- Expertise with at least one web framework, preferably node or python
- Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product
- Clear and effective communicator, especially in cross-functional settings
- Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedba...