Principal Software Engineer, Posit
Performance
$176.8-233.3k
Offers an annual profit-sharing bonus
Open source and enterprise ready tools
Open for applications
Open source and enterprise ready tools
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$176.8-233.3k
Offers 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
- You have at least 8+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record of building developer tools, testing frameworks, observability platforms, or other high-leverage, systems-level software
- You have a strong, fundamental understanding of Linux systems, Kubernetes, and how software performance is impacted by underlying compute, storage, and networking infrastructure
- You possess a deep and practical understanding of performance analysis, load testing methodologies, and scalability engineering for complex distributed systems
- You are proficient in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, C++) and are enthusiastic about learning the languages and technologies used across the Posit ecosystem
- You are curious and excited about exploring AI technologies, including how LLMs might be leveraged in the development of the new benchmarking tool
- You are an exceptional communicator and mentor who finds satisfaction in helping other engineers learn and succeed
- You are user-focused, pragmatic, and deliberate in your approach to problem-solving, with a keen sense of empathy for both your coworkers and the users we serve
- You are driven by our mission to facilitate science and education for everyone and appreciate the unique values of working for a Public Benefit Corporation
What the job involves
- Posit is seeking a principal software engineer with deep expertise in performance and scalability to lead a strategic function for our professional products
- Your primary task will be to help development teams and thousands of customers by creating tools that define and measure performance across Posit's entire product suite
- Posit produces a family of on-premise and cloud-based software products for data science, scientific research, and technical communication, so your work has the potential to improve the user experience of scientists around the world
- You will head the development of a new, open-source benchmarking tool specific to Posit that builds upon existing tests and frameworks
- It will establish standards for both our internal teams and our global user base
- You will also be the organization's leading expert and advocate on performance, translating complex metrics into impact and cultivating a "performance-first" mindset throughout our engineering culture
- Design, build, and champion a reusable, open-source benchmarking tool. This tool will be a cornerstone of our performance strategy, providing a consistent and extensible platform for both internal engineering teams and customers.
- Establish the performance and load baselines for our professional products. You will work with teams to understand their existing performance tests and use this along with the benchmarking tool to determine what good looks like
- Develop and maintain dashboards for internal visibility on performance. Using the tools and tests, you will maintain a centralized dashboard for tracking
- Cultivate a "performance-first" mindset across our engineering organization. You will be a key teacher and mentor, elevating the knowledge of our development teams
- Work with product and engineering leaders to embed performance into our roadmaps
- Meet with customers to explain how they can best use our products and listen to what they need
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
41% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
South Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA
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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