Senior Software Engineer, Data

We are looking for a Senior Software Data Engineer to join our growing Data Team! Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will evolve our data models in several styles of datastores and operationalize production-grade data pipelines. As part of this role, you'll collaborate with a world-class team, experience growth and mentorship, and apply data engineering solutions to shape the future of scientific discovery.

You Will:

• Collaborate with Machine Learning, Fullstack engineers, and Science to solve complex document mining challenges, helping us capture and model additional scientific experiments
• Use your experience to help define and apply best practices for a broad platform of technologies in a cloud-based environment
• Lead or consult the authoring of engineering design proposals following the unified Platform Stream roadmap at BenchSci
• Leverage a deep understanding of the business context and the team’s goals to unlock independent technical decisions in the face of open-ended requirements
• Proactively identify new opportunities (from both internal and external sources) and advocate for and implement improvements to the current state of projects
• Respond with urgency and drive urgency in own team to operational issues, owning resolution within one's sphere of responsibility
• Challenge the status quo and propose newer technologies or ways of working
• Scale data pipelines to allow our data to go from research to platform quickly and reliably
• Work with sources that contain both semi-structured and unstructured data

You Have:

• A degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a related field within science
• 5+ years experience working as a software developer in the industry
• Proficient with Python
• Proficient with SQL
• Experience with Event-driven architecture with Pub/Sub
• A track record in building high-quality, maintainable code

Nice to have:

• Worked with GCP
• ML/Data science exposure
• Worked with Auth0, Terraform
• Worked with the llamaIndex framework and have experience with ConversationalAI