Senior Software Engineer, Posit
Open source and enterprise ready tools
Job no longer available
Open source and enterprise ready tools
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication.
Role
Who you are
- People who thrive in this role tend to be highly accountable, driven, collaborative, curious, and open-minded
- They have a strong sense of ownership over their own features as well as the whole product
What the job involves
- Join the passionate and humble team behind Posit Workbench, where we strive for continual improvement and love making better experiences for our customers
- You’ll contribute to building a cutting-edge platform that empowers data science teams to collaborate seamlessly across R, Python, and more
- Be part of an engineering team that creates scalable, cloud-integrated solutions, helping enterprises optimize their data workflows while working in an environment that values growth, innovation, and teamwork
- In this role, you will exercise your technical expertise to design features that have a major impact on the whole product, review the designs of others’ features, and investigate challenging bugs and customer issues
- Design and development of Workbench features for launching and managing data science IDE sessions in a cluster (multi-threaded C++, Linux)
- Designing your features to be observable and scalable
- Gathering and responding to stakeholder feedback about features
- Driving an outstanding customer experience through creativity, product-mindedness, and technical innovation
- Developing multilingual features, including C++, Go, Rust, Python, and Typescript
- Influencing what we build, and how we build it
- Defining and iterating on team process
- Creating automated tests
- Supporting enterprise Workbench customers
- Reviewing feature specifications and pull requests
- What you’ll learn:
- An appreciation for data science workflows, and how data science teams work
- Systems that enable businesses to host modern IDEs in secure environments at scale
- How to extend IDEs like VS Code, Positron, and RStudio with features that support code-first data science
- After 3-months:
- You will have started to build up an understanding of the needs of RStudio Workbench administrators. You may have identified a particular area of the product where you want to take a deeper dive and eventually take ownership
- You are participating in supporting customers with another member of the team leading the effort
- You are contributing to the code reviews of other team members, particularly for your areas of expertise
- After 12-months:
- You provide extensive design and code review feedback on the features of other team members
- You are confident working in one or two major areas and comfortable exploring new areas of the product
- You are comfortable taking the lead in supporting customers
- You have an understanding of our build and automated test system and are able to investigate failures and add new features and automated tests to them
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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