Senior Engineer, Posit
Testing Infrastructure
$132.7-175.1k
+ 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
$132.7-175.1k
+ 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
- Expertise in building test automation infrastructure and creating automated tests at scale
- Experience writing automated tests in Cypress or in Python
- Curiosity and a willingness to learn new technologies
- A humble, collaborative approach to producing high-quality software
- Desire to help colleagues and those on other teams, and work with them frequently in a highly collaborative environment
- A drive to architect and implement comprehensive, yet pragmatic, test strategies to cover functionality across many different systems, knowing what to prioritize and how to assess and communicate the tradeoffs
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly skilled and innovative Senior Quality Engineer to join our Posit Connect engineering team
- Posit Connect delivers value to businesses by empowering data scientists to rapidly deploy custom reports and applications
- This role involves test automation infrastructure creation and maintenance, automated test strategy creation, and full-stack automated testing, in collaboration with the team
- Quality is owned by everyone on the team, so developers and quality engineers work closely to ensure we are producing software with high value and quality, and building reliable CI infrastructure and internal tools to ensure high quality and facilitate development
- This role offers a significant opportunity to drive the quality of our software through building, expanding, and maintaining our automated test infrastructure
- We value analysis, empathy, and critical thought on the team, and you will be expected to contribute to collaborative product and development discussions throughout the development process
- You'll create, maintain, and enhance our automated test infrastructure, making automated tests easier to author, faster to run, more resilient, and broader in coverage. Depending on the project, these automated tests could be end-to-end, integration, API, or load and performance
- Develop infrastructure as code to deploy reproducible test environments in AWS, Kubernetes, docker, GitHub actions, etc
- Expand our performance testing using internal and external tools and infrastructure
- Maintain and improve our existing test infrastructure and testing frameworks
- Develop a strategy for future CI infrastructure and automated tests
- Collaborate with other QA Engineers to coordinate test coverage, assess risk holistically, and mentor others in areas where you have expertise
- Work closely with Engineering leadership to ensure we have the correct process and strategy for our day to day work
- Partner with developers and Customer Support to investigate customer-reported issues, ensuring a smooth user experience and contributing to continuous product improvement
- Test automation best practices across all of our code, with a critical eye towards infrastructure and build systems
- This role isn't just about writing great tests; it's about designing and implementing solutions that ensure our builds remain fast and efficient even as our testing efforts expand
- You'll teach:
- A quality mindset across the team
- Everyone on the team owns quality, but quality engineers are champions for broad and pragmatic automated test coverage, quick and reliable CI that unblocks the team quickly, and implements and maintains measures of non-functional performance
- Industry trends and new technologies related to CI, testing, and automation
- Build and maintain test setups that can grow with our software, but are pragmatically scaled for our current problems
- Creating test infrastructure that lasts, is easy to update, and runs efficiently, even as things get more complex without being overengineered
- You'll learn how to develop and maintain software effectively within a data science context, including best practices, tools, and patterns common in the field
- A deep understanding of Posit Connect, publishing tools and plugins, and the test environments required to ensure software quality
- Broad domain expertise across Posit products by collaborating closely with other teams
Application process
- In your cover letter include something you wish we knew about you that's not on your resume
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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