Python Software Engineer, Yellowbrick
3+ days a week in office
Data warehouse for distributed clouds
Job no longer available
Data warehouse for distributed clouds
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
3+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify data warehousing by making Data Warehouses quick to deploy and simple to manage.
Role
Who you are
- You’ll want to work with and learn from some of the brightest people in industry, grow your skills and learn how products are built and shipped
- You jump at the opportunity to master new technologies and keep up to date
- You take initiative to, and get satisfaction from, collaborating with other developers to build the best possible reusable APIs and interfaces
- You have a bias for action with a “can-do” attitude
- You’ve a deep understanding of Python, churn out and evangelize Pythonic code, but you’re not a zealot and prioritise shipping quality product ahead of perfection
- You are comfortable with optimizing Python for performance but are a pragmatic computer scientist, comfortable with concurrency and still able to work with and interface with other languages such as Java and C++
- 2-5 years of experience as an SDET, Software Developer, or a related role with a strong focus on test automation using Python
- Strong programming skills (python primarily, but additional languages a plus)
- Strong understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and best practices
- In-depth knowledge of common testing frame works (ideally PyTest) and tools (e.g. Locust for load testing)
- Familiarity with git, CI tools, and containers
- A working knowledge of SQL and databases
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
What the job involves
- Join our software development team, starting as a Python Software Engineer, where you’ll be responsible for building our test automation platform and associated libraries
- Reporting to Gabriel, our Senior Manager of Platform Engineering and Quality, we’re offering an extensive opportunity to grow your skills, learn and innovate by trying different things as you start your career
- We build fully elastic, scale-out stateful database software and have a unique deployment model that ships across a multitude of public cloud platforms, private cloud platforms and traditional on-premises infrastructure
- We’re building a brand new engineering platform that runs across these different cloud and supports everything from the development experience, test development, CI/CD, performance and security testing, customer workload automation, shipping and releasing
- Design, develop, enhance and maintain our engineering platform
- Develop new libraries and modules to provide reusable interfaces for complex database functionality
- Participate in the creation and review of test plans, test cases, and test strategies
- Ensure scalability and reliability of our product by developing, executing and analysing the results of performance and load tests
- Help and train developers to implement best practices and improve their skills in testing and test automation
- Define and track automated metrics to track the health and productivity of our products (e.g. with static analysis tools), as well as pushing a data driven approach to development and test
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Yellowbrick is quickly providing a new generation of ultra-high-performance data warehouse capabilities for large enterprises. Whilst the conventional old-school method for storing data relied on physical warehouses, and recent innovations have turned most companies to the Cloud, Yellowbrick Data has introduced a hybrid solution.
The technology is a step function improvement compared to legacy solutions, helping modern enterprises digest and interpret massive data workloads in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the cost.
More and more large companies are using Yellowbrick Data, adding to an already diversified customer base from multiple industries in financial services, hedge funds, and insurance. Yellowbrick Data is unique in the sense that its flexible according to an individual business needs. With a customer retention rate of 150% this indicates that Yellowbrick Data is the innovation leader in modern data warehousing.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2021
$75m
SERIES C
Jun 2019
$81m
SERIES C
Total funding: $251.2m
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Neil Carson
(CEO)More than 20 years of deep experience in technology, including at as Chief Application Architect at Dell and CTO of Fusion-io.
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