Benchling · 1 month ago
Software Engineer, Backend (Usage & Billing Platform)
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$141K/yr - $191K/yr
5+ years expBenchling is a biotechnology company focused on unlocking the power of biotechnology through their R&D Cloud. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their Usage & Billing Platform team to design, build, and operate systems for usage metering, rating, and billing, enabling accurate and transparent monetization of their products.
BiotechnologyLife ScienceSoftware
Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate high-throughput usage metering pipelines (event schemas, exactly-once ingestion, windowed aggregation), including backfills, reconciliation, and strong data-quality guarantees (idempotency, deduplication, lineage)
Develop and evolve Billing Platform primitives including plans, pricing, entitlements, discounts/credits, invoicing, as well as integrations with identity, data warehouse, ERP/payment providers; ensure auditability, compliance, and financial-grade accuracy
Ship real-time product experiences powered by usage (quotas, alerts, in-app dashboards) and robust observability; define SLAs and lead incident response for platform reliability
Partner with Product, Finance, RevOps, Security, and Application teams to translate business rules into meters and pricing models; validate with experiments and usage analytics
Improve developer ergonomics and consistency across Benchling via clear APIs/SDKs, instrumentation standards, documentation, and mentorship; drive continual improvements to team process and tooling
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in SaaS and/or platform engineering
Proficiency in backend development and API design with Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript (Benchling uses Python internally for most systems); strong data modeling skills and experience with transactional (e.g., Postgres) and analytical stores (e.g., Snowflake/ClickHouse)
Experience designing and operating distributed systems and event-driven/streaming pipelines (e.g., Kafka/Kinesis/Pub/Sub) plus batch processing (e.g., Spark/Flink/Beam); solid testing and reliability practices
Track record of delivering projects end-to-end and collaborating with Product, Finance, RevOps, and Security to translate business rules into meters, pricing, and invoicing
Deep care for data quality and correctness (idempotency, deduplication, reconciliation/backfills, lineage/audit trails) and familiarity with SLIs/SLOs, observability (metrics/logs/tracing), and incident response
Excellent communication and documentation skills; ability to mentor peers and improve developer ergonomics through clear APIs, instrumentation standards, and tooling
Enthusiasm for complex technical challenges and an interest in the life sciences domain
Preferred
Experience building or integrating metered consumption systems (e.g., OpenMeter, Metronome), payment/ERP providers (e.g., Stripe, NetSuite), and downstream analytics/revenue recognition tooling
Benefits
Competitive total rewards package
Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
Four months of fully paid parental leave
401(k) + Employer Match
Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
Monthly Wellness stipend
Learning and development stipend
Generous and flexible vacation
Company-wide Winter holiday shutdown
Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries
Company
Benchling
Benchling is an IT company that provides a cloud-based software platform for biology researchers and research and development organizations.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$411.9MKey Investors
Sequoia Capital Global EquitiesAlkeon CapitalMenlo Ventures
2021-11-17Series F· $100M
2021-04-14Series E· $200M
2020-05-28Series D· $50M
Leadership Team
Sam Wickramasekara
Founder & CEO
Ashutosh Singhal
Co-Founder and President
Recent News
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