Senior Software Engineer, Posit
+ 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
+ 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
- This is a great role for someone who wants to work on infrastructure, but also likes to dip their toes into full-stack development
- Find joy in working directly with and unblocking partners and customers. This role involves more interaction with a wide variety of groups than the typical product team role
- Be interested in Containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure. Much of the software we use will involve containerized environments and extend the images built by the Platform team
- Be inquisitive and humble. Our team works in many areas, and partnership work can involve many still-developing projects. Great engineers will enjoy this uncertainty and constantly seek to learn more
- Be open to making changes up and down the technology stack. While much of our work is in the infrastructure/backend realm, willingness to make changes to front-end code to enable customer self-service is a plus
- Bonus points if you have a head-start in any of these areas!
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us build new features, deliver excellent customer service, and experiment with new technologies to help set the technical direction of the product
- This team works across all Posit Team products and manages deployments of Posit Academy and the Posit Team platform into customer-owned cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Joining this team will give you the flexibility and influence that comes from working on an early stage product, but with the stability and work-life balance that comes from working at a profitable company
- Development of new platform features and the infrastructure to support them, expanding our service from Kubernetes on AWS to additional cluster types like SLURM and additional clouds like Azure and GCP
- Evaluate new technologies as the scale and surface area of the product evolve so you can participate with technology selection and implementation
- Incorporate new infrastructure resources, including development of Kubernetes operators
- Ensure that the team is prepared to scale to support additional customers in multiple cloud regions
- Improve the security, performance, scalability, and reliability of existing backend services
- Work directly with users to debug and resolve issues; consider how to improve the systems to increase reliability moving forward
- Participate in on-call rotation to resolve system availability issues for customers
- Help others on the team get acquainted with infrastructure components that you have expertise in, such as the AWS and Kubernetes ecosystem
- Help create a collaborative and psychologically safe environment for team members. Model humility and compassion for others
- Guide others in balancing the needs of stable, mission-critical systems with the desire to be able to experiment and prototype elsewhere
- Aid in reducing the support burden of the product by helping the team properly incorporate instrumentation, logging, and distributed tracing
- Things you’ll learn:
- Languages and technologies we use that you don’t already know. We don't expect anybody coming in will know all the technologies that we work with. We work extensively with Go, Python, and Javascript. The product teams that we integrate with also use C++, Rust, R, and more
- Gain familiarity with with the LGTM observability stack: Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir
- An appreciation for data science workflows, and some of the tools and methodologies used by data scientists
- The Posit products and how they empower our customers to do effective data science, along with open-source data science tools like R, Python, and the infrastructure required for machine learning
- Within 1 month, you will…
- Pair with an engineer on the team to design, develop, and merge a pull request into our infrastructure code
- Deploy a change to production
- Meet everyone on the team to begin building trust and rapport
- Within 3 months, you will…
- Take ownership of a small new feature. With some assistance, you’ll work with stakeholders or other engineers on the team to understand requirements, then design and implement the feature
- Propose and champion improvements that will make the product more reliable, scalable and/or supportable
- Track down and resolve an issue observed in production. Have enough of an understanding of our services to be able to track a request through to locate the bug; work with other engineers on the team to design a solution and resolve it. Deploy the fix to production
- Take on a support rotation, escalating to other engineers on the team where necessary
- Within 6 months, you will..
- Take ownership of a significant feature or service component. Determine what support, user input, or resources will be required to design and deliver the feature then drive work to completion. Experiment with and evaluate any new technologies or systems that may be required to complete the feature
- Be able to give an architectural overview of the major components of the product
- Within 12 months, you will…
- Advocate and build support for larger changes that would improve the product or the team. What improvements could we make in how we think about e.g. logging, alerting, scaling, storage, deployment, authentication, or monitoring?
- Be involved on a hiring panel for an engineering candidate
- Lead an initiative that involves collaboration from additional engineers or teams. Document and communicate requirements, decisions, and what’s needed from others. Help garner consensus around technical decisions, respond to feedback, iterate rapidly with stakeholders to converge on a successful outcome
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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