Senior Engineering Manager, Posit
+ An annual profit-sharing bonus
Open source and enterprise ready tools
Be an early applicant
Open source and enterprise ready tools
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ An annual profit-sharing bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication.
Role
Who you are
- Empathetic: you enjoy seeing your team realize their full potential, individually and collectively, and appreciate that cultivating these relationships takes time and intention
- Technical: you are comfortable diving into the code to understand how things work. Even if you are not an expert in the language or domain, your prior experience writing software helps you to find the right question to ask that can unblock the experts on your team
- Product-minded: while you enjoy solving technical challenges and mentoring people, the best part is doing that in the service of delighting your product’s users. You don’t lose sight of the “why”. It’s not required that you have worked in data science, devops, or other fields from which our users come, but prior experience with the product space will help you get up to speed quicker
- Pragmatic: you’ve experienced what works well and what doesn’t, but you know that there’s no magic recipe for fostering a healthy, productive team. You listen to understand and then collaborate with your team on solutions that work in the current context
- Curious: you’re driven to learn new things and continuously improve
What the job involves
- Posit is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to drive software delivery and coach the talented, dedicated team working on Posit Package Manager
- In this position, you will lead both people and processes and directly impact the design, execution, and quality of one of Posit’s core products
- Posit Package Manager provides a secure, reliable, and scalable way to distribute and manage R and Python packages across an organization
- Built-in vulnerability scanning and management bolsters security and compliance efforts
- It can provide an air-gapped source of CRAN, PyPI, and other packages for high-security environments
- We are striving to develop the best multilingual package manager for data scientists
- We also provide an important free tool to the data science community through Posit Public Package Manager
- Managing a team of individual contributors and leading them in shipping value to our customers
- Maintaining the software development process, identifying and eliminating bottlenecks to empower the team to deliver with the least amount of friction
- Adding to cohesive, high-performing teams through strategic hiring
- Supporting the people on the team, helping them to grow and flourish
- Collaborating with product management and technical leads to scope and plan projects and maintain the roadmap
- Working with QA leadership and other stakeholders to ensure that we set and meet our high-quality standards
- Measuring team effectiveness and devising plans to mitigate bottlenecks
- Working together with other teams to come up with engineering and product solutions
- Creating opportunities for customer interaction and product feedback loops
- New perspectives on how to organize and design processes that help us deliver the best quality software in a way that also is sustainable for the people involved
- Effective communication styles, both within the team, as in specifications and requirements docs, and with stakeholders, as in translating between user needs and technical work breakdowns
- A deeper understanding of cloud computing and integrations, particularly how they relate to data science workflows
- Differences between delivering a product that runs on-premises versus a SaaS product and the implications of that difference for the development process
- The Posit products, both open-source and commercial, and how they empower our customers to do effective data science through code
- Within one month, you will…
- Get to know everyone on the product team and become familiar with our current software development practices
- Start building relationships with your direct reports to understand their goals and how they align with the team’s objectives
- Dig into our issue backlog and product strategy and start connecting the dots
- Get familiar with the development culture and practices by reading code, reviewing pull requests, asking good questions, and engaging with the substance of our work
- Ship something small in the project's Go codebase. Writing code won’t be a primary job responsibility, but getting your hands on the code at this stage will help you to understand better the context in which your team works
- Within three months, you will…
- Facilitate our regular cadence of software development and delivery, identifying ways to improve our workflows and processes
- Successfully guide the delivery of a high-impact project
- Participate in planning and roadmapping to help the team identify our best opportunities
- Establish trust with your direct reports, be familiar with their individual growth plans, and start looking for opportunities to enable their ongoing career development
- Within twelve months, you will…
- Coordinate major initiatives that span across multiple releases
- Give tactical guidance on how best to deliver complex projects
- Provide career development resources; grow leadership and enable technical achievement across the team
Our take
In a data-driven world, having reliable and accessible software is key to optimizing functionality. Posit provides R and Python-based tools to help improve the speed and quality of analysis, created "for data scientists by data scientists", with uses in data science, scientific research, and technical communication.
Posit's unique approach to creating universal data processing capabilities is helping to create new pathways in the digital age. It uses a unique blend of social and commercial endeavours to satisfy the demand for comprehensive data processing, and many of the company's products, including Posit Team for enterprises, are open sourced and accessible to all. Those looking for more advanced products can access programs such as Posit Server Pro and Shiny Server Pro for workspace management.
Given its unique approach to data management, entities from Liberty Mutual to Walmart and NASA have been incorporating Posit's technology. The company has received considerable amounts of funding, which has been used to expand its services, in 2024 launching the beta of its next-gen data science development environment. As the demand for open-source services continues to grow, Posit's effort to create data management services for all should continue to capture market share.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2021
$161.3m
LATE VC
Total funding: $161.3m
Company benefits
- 100% remote (or come in to one of our offices in Seattle or Boston)
- Pick your hardware — we want to equip you with what you need to do your best work
- All our full time employees are given an allowance to outfit their home office
- We have a flexible environment with a “take what you need” vacation policy
- Positive, passionate culture working with a world-class team committed to data science and the R language
Company values
- Open - We aim for transparency in the way we make and share tools—and the way we manage our company. We believe that great ideas come from anywhere—and that we’re better together.
- Resourceful - Intelligence is more than ‘book smart’ or ‘tech smart.’ It’s a mindset. To better serve everyone in our community we value continuous learning, curiosity, and emotional intelligence.
- Generous - We collaborate with our customers, the community, and each other with open hearts and minds. And we believe the effort, capital, and care we put out into the world benefits everyone in the end.
- Lasting - We want to remain an independent company for the long term. We make investments with this goal in mind, starting with our people. Our benefits programs are designed to ensure the long-term wellbeing of our teams.
Company HQ
South Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA
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Leadership
JJ Allaire
(CEO)Founded Allaire, where they served as CEO and then Chairman. JJ also founded Onfolio, which was acquired by Microsoft. They founded FitNow in 2008 before starting RStudio in January 2010.
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