Senior Software Engineer, Posit
$146-192.7k
Open source and enterprise ready tools
Job no longer available
Open source and enterprise ready tools
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$146-192.7k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking to add someone who is versatile in many areas of back-end software development and able to change gears between a few different projects within this role as needed
- Software development best practices. We are looking to expand the development expertise on this team, and you will help us learn the key tools and best practices for working with Go, even if it is not your primary programming language
- Other areas of expertise. We are a team that likes to learn and which has many areas that it needs to work in. We could especially use your knowledge in OpenTelemetry, infrastructure, or test automation. But whatever it is, we expect we'll find more things that you've done that help us learn more
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team
- The team works across all Posit products, working on common engineering services and cloud deployments
- This is a high-leverage team that can impact many people and customers
- You’ll primarily be developing new features for our new metrics aggregation service, Chronicle, which helps customers understand key usage indicators within Posit products
- Development is done in Go, and we are looking for a strong Go developer with Linux familiarity to help with our work
- The Chronicle system utilizes OpenTelemetry and our products are integrating more deeply with it to expand our metrics-gathering capabilities, so experience here is a plus
- Our teams take ownership over ensuring quality of their work
- You will participate in test automation and environment management, so experience with automated testing and IaC tools such as Pulumi or Terraform are a huge plus
- We encourage the usage of AI tools in our work, and would love to work with you to integrate them more into our workflows and development practices and continue to explore new possibilities in this space
- Development and delivery of key metric collection, aggregation and reporting capabilities. You will receive help from the team on this, but we want you to own the implementation details=
- As you gain knowledge here, we want you to be able to design, develop, and maintain key features across Chronicle, such as adding new product metrics, refining new reporting and data collection capabilities, and other areas as the product grows
- Guiding Chronicle projects through the full software development lifecycle from planning through support. You will work with the product owner and the team to craft user stories, ensure alignment with user needs, foster collaboration, and define clear acceptance criteria. You will also engage with our customers via our asynchronous support channels to continuously improve the products by taking customer feedback into consideration
- Prioritization of enhancements and bug-fixes to ensure that we are always delivering the most value to our customers
- Improving the development process to ensure that it is a seamless and enjoyable experience for all members of the team
- Improving our build automation and delivery pipelines to improve our build and release cadences
- Improving test automation and general testability of our software to ensure that our software is robust with few defects and maintainable for many years to come
- AI development best practices to ensure we are utilizing this emerging technology fully, with the goal of improving quality and cadence of development
- What you will learn:
- Languages and technologies we use that you don’t already know
- An appreciation for data science workflows, and some of the tools and methodologies used by data scientists
- Metrics collection technologies such as OpenTelemetry and Parquet
- Kubernetes best practices for running our software in Cloud-first architectures
- The Posit products and how they empower our customers to do effective data science
- The customer experience of deploying our products and how to better improve the experience by prioritizing specific customer feedback
- How to work with many different teams within the organization. We work a lot with other teams and can act as a connective glue between teams. To be effective, you will need to learn from these other teams, especially the site reliability engineering team
- How to increase leverage of other teams by making their workflows more efficient and automated
- Within one month, you will…
- Get to know everyone on the team and get familiar with our current development strategies
- Follow our onboarding guide and suggest improvements
- Work on your first feature request and open a handful of pull requests for review
- Begin understanding how things fit together
- Within three months, you will…
- See your code changes reflected in our current product versions
- Participate in feature planning and provide feedback
- Feel comfortable with the repository layouts
- Within six months, you will..
- Add your name to our list of ownership areas and learn more about these topics
- Understand our customer escalations and tickets well enough that you can advocate for them in planning
- Teach the team lessons from your previous experiences
- Within a year, you will…
- Understand how the commercial products work together to create a great data science platform
- Plan a feature and kick off the development
- Point to parts of the products that you have significantly contributed to
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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