Senior Engineering Manager, Posit
Cloud Operations
$201.3-276.8k
+ An annual profit-sharing bonus
Open-source tools for data science
Job no longer available
Open-source tools for data science
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$201.3-276.8k
+ An 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
- We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Operations team
- The ideal candidate will be a collaborative and adaptable leader
- Your diplomatic approach to stakeholder management and strong technical understanding of how software is built and operated will be crucial in helping the team choose projects that help make the entire development organization more effective
- Empathetic: you enjoy seeing your team realize their full potential, individually and collectively, and appreciate that cultivating these relationships takes time and intention
- Organized: you enjoy developing and maintaining systems that ensure that the team nails the details and that things don’t fall through the cracks
- Pragmatic: you’ve experienced what works well and what doesn’t, but you know that there’s no magic recipe for fostering a healthy, productive team. You listen to understand and then collaborate with your team on solutions that work in the current context
- Curious: you’re driven to learn new things and continuously improve
What the job involves
- This team works within our Product Development group, we have separate IT and Security teams outside of Product Development
- Joining this team will give you the flexibility and influence that comes from working alongside teams building multiple early stage products, but with the stability and work-life balance that comes from working at a profitable company
- Managing a team of individual contributors and leading them in providing value to our stakeholders
- Prioritizing and communicating the roadmap for CloudOps, selecting projects that find the ideal balance between short term productivity, company objectives, and long term organization health
- Vendor negotiations for services this team manages
- Supporting the humans on the team, helping them to grow and flourish
- Collaborating with QA, Engineering, and Security managers across the organization on improving the software development process, identifying and eliminating bottlenecks to empower the team to deliver with the least amount of friction
- Collaborate with engineering teams to implement cloud best practices
- Improve the security, performance, scalability, and reliability of existing services
- New perspectives on capabilities, practices, and measures of high-performing technology-driven teams and organizations (DORA report), updating our processes and techniques based on current research about high performing teams
- Effective communication styles, both within the team, as in specifications and requirements docs, and with stakeholders, as in translating between user needs and technical work breakdowns
- 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 one month, you will…
- Get to know everyone on the team and become familiar with our current project workload
- Start building relationships with stakeholders to understand their goals and how they align to the team’s objectives
- Review our project backlog and identify which projects are likely to have the most impact
- Get familiar with the existing culture and workflows within the CloudOps, DataOps, and SRE practices by reading code, reviewing pull requests, asking good questions, and engaging with the substance of our work
- Within three months, you will…
- Successfully guide the delivery of a high impact project
- Participate in planning and roadmapping to help the team identify our best opportunities
- Establish trust with your direct reports, be familiar with their individual growth plans, and start looking for opportunities to enable their ongoing career development
- Report on progress with a predictable cadence, enabling stakeholders to plan product engineering work more confidently
- Within twelve months, you will…
- Coordinate major initiatives that support a key company objective
- Give tactical guidance on how best to deliver complex projects
- Provide career development resources; grow leadership and enable technical achievement across the team
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.
By creating universal data processing capabilities, Posit is helping to create new pathways in the digital age. 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. And, as the demand for open-source services continues to grow, Posit 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
(Founder & Executive Chair)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.
Tareef Kawaf
(CEO)Previously SVP of Engineering and Operations at Brightcove, VP of Engineering at Ruckus Network and Director of Engineering and Commerce at ATG.
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