Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Posit
$160.7-212.1k
Open source and enterprise ready tools
Job no longer available
Open source and enterprise ready tools
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$160.7-212.1k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication.
Role
Who you are
- You have significant experience writing software to manage cloud infrastructure at scale
- You are a natural leader who takes initiative and can drive complex projects to completion
- You are user-focused and mission-driven facilitatingdriven by our mission to facilitate data science and education for everyone
- You share our commitment to building great software by striving for robust design, clean and well-tested code, and delightful user experiences
- You excel at breaking down complex problems into bite-size tasks and driving them to completion
- You are empathetic, humble and pragmatic in your approach to work and interactions with your colleagues
- Skills: Expertise in infrastructure-as-code technologies, and familiarity with cloud-based storage and network management. You are comfortable with languages like Go and Python
What the job involves
- This role is for a leader, a strategist, and a hands-on engineer who thrives on solving complex problems. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll join our Cloud Operations team to support robust teams that support data science workflows for thousands of users
- In addition to your core responsibilities on the Cloud Operations team, you'll be flexible and adaptable, occasionally engaging with various internal teams in a consulting capacity. You'll use your expertise to help different product and engineering teams understand cloud-based architectures in Azure, AWS, and GCP. You will act as a technical advisor, helping them design and implement solutions that get the most value from our products while reducing time to value
- You'll be a key part of a team that creates scalable, cloud-integrated solutions, helping enterprises optimize their data workflows in an environment that values growth, innovation, and teamwork. This role involves direct interaction with internal teams, making it a great fit for someone who enjoys unblocking others and mentoring their peers
- Operational excellence, reliability, and security of our products, advocating for investments to improve them
- The design and development of robust cloud-based architectures, such as an AWS EKS reference architecture that will be used by our customers
- Ensuring new features are designed with operational considerations, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability in mind
- Evaluating new technologies as the scale and surface area of the product evolve, so you can participate in technology selection and implementation
- Mentoring and consulting with other teams to help them incorporate cloud best practices and sound architectural decisions into their products and services
- Ensuring appropriate metrics and monitoring are in place for actionable alerting with a high signal-to-noise ratio
- Improving our infrastructure as code (using Pulumi) and continuous integration and deployment pipelines
- Improving the security, performance, scalability, observability, and reliability of existing backend services
- Load and performance testing of our products across different cloud-based environments
- Anti-patterns learned from prior experiences handling operational incidents
- The tools, tips, and tricks that make your professional life easier
- Help others on the team get acquainted with infrastructure components you have expertise in, such as the Azure and Kubernetes ecosystem
- Aid in reducing the support burden of the product by helping the team incorporate proper instrumentation, logging, and distributed tracing
- What You’ll Learn
- A breadth of AWS, Azure, and GCP services
- Metrics and monitoring at scale using Datadog
- Infrastructure as code using Pulumi and other technologies
- The Posit products and how their data science customers work, along with open-source tools like R and Python
- Within 1 month:
- Get to know the Cloud Operations team and Workbench team
- Follow our onboarding process and contribute improvements to it
- Participate in architecture overviews to gain familiarity with Posit
- Deliver your first changes to our infrastructure or microservices
- Begin your first embedded consulting engagement with the Workbench team, helping them with a key architecture decision
- Within 3 months:
- Review our existing architecture and provide feedback and suggestions for possible improvements
- Contribute to a small team building out a new feature or realistic test environment
- Within 12 months:
- Own or demonstrate expertise in multiple areas of our infrastructure and services
- Research problems and new technologies and effectively communicate findings to the team
- Propose and lead significant infrastructure projects
- Become a trusted technical leader and consultant for multiple teams across the engineering organization
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 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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