Engineering Leader (Infrastructure)

Join Benchling, a leading life sciences R&D cloud platform, as an Engineering Manager in Infrastructure Engineering. In this highly technical leadership role, you will lead a team of infrastructure engineers, drive reliability improvements, and build and evolve cloud foundations on AWS. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Platform Engineering, Security, and Product Engineering, and operate in a regulated environment. This position offers a competitive salary, equity, robust healthcare benefits, family-forming benefits, and retirement benefits.

• Lead and grow a team of infrastructure engineers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Own delivery and outcomes for critical infrastructure and services-platform initiatives, including reliability, scalability, cost, security posture, and compliance-aligned engineering practices.
• Drive reliability improvements using pragmatic SRE principles, strengthen incident response, and build and evolve cloud foundations on AWS.
• We’re specifically looking for a leader with a software engineering and infrastructure background, not just operations. Experience with incident management and managing SRE teams is a plus
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and services-platform patterns (e.g., service mesh such as Istio, ingress, service discovery, workload isolation)
• Ability to collaborate across teams and influence without authority; strong written and verbal communication
• Experience building or evolving observability and operational tooling (Datadog, FireHydrant, Sentry, or similar)
• Production experience operating on AWS (e.g., EKS/ECS, RDS, VPC, EC2, S3) and building scalable internal platforms
• Comfort working in a stack largely in Python (Go also highly appreciated), with TypeScript in the broader ecosystem (especially for platform tooling and integrations)
• Strong technical depth with previous direct, hands-on experience in software engineering and infrastructure/platform engineering
• Direct ownership of incident management programs (on-call design, incident command, postmortems, and reliability governance)
• Experience managing or partnering closely with SRE teams
• Experience in regulated environments (GxP, biotech, healthcare, finance), including change control, auditability, and SDLC/process rigor
• 3+ years of people leadership experience including managing a team across a range of levels