About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us build new features, deliver excellent customer service, and experiment with new technologies to help set the technical direction of the product.
This team works across all Posit Team products and manages deployments of Posit Academy and the Posit Team platform into customer-owned cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Joining this team will give you the flexibility and influence that comes from working on an early stage product, but with the stability and work-life balance that comes from working at a profitable company. This is a great role for someone who wants to work on infrastructure, but also likes to dip their toes into full-stack development.
People who thrive in this role will tend to:
- Find joy in working directly with and unblocking partners and customers. This role involves more interaction with a wide variety of groups than the typical product team role.
- Be interested in Containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure. Much of the software we use will involve containerized environments and extend the images built by the Platform team.
- Be inquisitive and humble. Our team works in many areas, and partnership work can involve many still-developing projects. Great engineers will enjoy this uncertainty and constantly seek to learn more.
- Be open to making changes up and down the technology stack. While much of our work is in the infrastructure/backend realm, willingness to make changes to front-end code to enable customer self-service is a plus.
Things you’ll own:
- Development of new platform features and the infrastructure to support them, expanding our service from Kubernetes on AWS to additional cluster types like SLURM and additional clouds like Azure and GCP.
- Evaluate new technologies as the scale and surface area of the product evolve so you can participate with technology selection and implementation.
- Incorporate new infrastructure resources, including development of Kubernetes operators.
Things you’ll help with:
- Ensure that the team is prepared to scale to support additional customers in multiple cloud regions.
- Improve the security, performance, scalability, and reliability of existing backend services.
- Work directly with users to debug and resolve issues; consider how to improve the systems to increase reliability moving forward.
- Participate in on-call rotation to resolve system availability issues for customers.
Things you’ll teach the team:
- Help others on the team get acquainted with infrastructure components that you have expertise in, such as the AWS and Kubernetes ecosystem.
- Help create a collaborative and psychologically safe environment for team members. Model humility and compassion for others.
- Guide others in balancing the needs of stable, mission-critical systems with the desire to be able to experiment and prototype elsewhere.
- Aid in reducing the support burden of the product by helping the team properly incorporate instrumentation, logging, and distributed tracing.
Things you’ll learn:
- Languages and technologies we use that you don’t already know. We don't expect anybody coming in will know all the technologies that we work with. We work extensively with Go, Python, and Javascript. The product teams that we integrate with also use C++, Rust, R, and more.
- Gain familiarity with with the LGTM observability stack: Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir
- 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.
Bonus points if you have a head-start in any of these areas!
Timeline 一 What to ExpectWithin 1 month, you will…
- Pair with an engineer on the team to design, develop, and merge a pull request into our infrastructure code.
- Deploy a change to production.
- Meet everyone on the team to begin building trust and rapport.
Within 3 months, you will…
- Take ownership of a small new feature. With some assistance, you’ll work with stakeholders or other engineers on the team to understand requirements, then design and implement the feature.
- Propose and champion improvements that will make the product more reliable, scalable and/or supportable.
- Track down and resolve an issue observed in production. Have enough of an understanding of our services to be able to track a request through to locate the bug; work with other engineers on the team to design a solution and resolve it. Deploy the fix to production.
- Take on a support rotation, escalating to other engineers on the team where necessary.
Within 6 months, you will...
- Take ownership of a significant feature or service component. Determine what support, user input, or resources will be required to design and deliver the feature then drive work to completion. Experiment with and evaluate any new technologies or systems that may be required to complete the feature.
- Be able to give an architectural overview of the major components of the product.
Within 12 months, you will…
- Advocate and build support for larger changes that would improve the product or the team. What improvements could we make in how we think about e.g. logging, alerting, scaling, storage, deployment, authentication, or monitoring?
- Be involved on a hiring panel for an engineering candidate.
- Lead an initiative that involves collaboration from additional engineers or teams. Document and communicate requirements, decisions, and what’s needed from others. Help garner consensus around technical decisions, respond to feedback, iterate rapidly with stakeholders to converge on a successful outcome.
- We welcome all talented colleagues and are committed to a culture that represents diversity in all its forms.
- We prioritize giving ourselves “focus time” to get deep work done. We minimize meetings and attempt to operate asynchronously.
- We are a learning organization and take mentorship and career growth seriously. We hope to learn from you and we anticipate that you will also deepen your skills, influence, and leadership as a result of working at Posit.
- We operate under a unique sustainable business model: We have over 50% of our engineering dedicated to creating free and open source software. We are profitable and we plan to be around decades from now.
- Posit is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and a Certified B Corporation®, which means our open-source mission is codified into our charter. As a result, our corporate decisions balance the community's interests, customers, employees, and shareholders. Hear more about why we think this matters here.
Notable:We offer competitive compensation with extensive human-first, people-focused benefits to prioritize your personal and financial well-being.
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums are covered for employees and their families! Fertility and gender-affirming healthcare is included in all of our plans.
- Supplemental mental health and wellness benefits are available via Ginger even if you don’t opt in to our insurance plans, including Ginger for teen family members.
- Posit's gender-neutral paid parental leave policy covers all new parents, including foster and adoptive parents.
- All full-time employees are eligible for 401k enrollment starting on day one.
- After six months of employment, Posit provides a substantial yearly match to employee 401K contributions.
- An annual profit-sharing bonus for employees recognizes our team’s contributions to company performance across the year.
- We are a 100% distributed team. You are also welcome to come into our Boston office.
- We offer a $400 monthly reimbursement for coworking space rental if you prefer to work away from home.
- Our Lifestyle Savings Account offers an initial deposit of $1800 and then an additional quarterly stipend of $375 to cover the costs of professional development, wellness, financial health, charitable giving, and remote work support.
- We provide a flexible environment with a generous vacation policy that encourages a minimum of four weeks PTO per year plus 13 paid company holidays.
Are you excited about this role but not sure if your experience aligns with every qualification in the job description? That’s okay. We know multiple perspectives are essential for a thriving organization and we'd still love to hear from you!
Posit is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applicants of different backgrounds, cultures, genders, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.
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What We Do
At Posit, our goal is to make data science more open, intuitive, accessible, and collaborative. We provide tools that make it easy for individuals, teams, and enterprises to leverage powerful analytics and gain the insights they need to make a lasting impact.
We create free & open-source tools for R & Python that are freely available to anyone. Our professional software equips individuals and teams to develop and share their work at scale.
Working at Posit:
We've always been a remote-first company and offer competitive compensation with extensive human-first, people-focused benefits to prioritize employees' personal and financial well-being.
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums are covered for employees and their families. Fertility and gender-affirming healthcare is included in all of our plans.
- Supplemental mental health and wellness benefits are available via Ginger even if you don’t opt into our insurance plans, including Ginger for teen family members.
- Posit’s gender-neutral paid parental leave policy covers all new parents, including foster and adoptive parents.
- Our 401k matches up to 50% of the maximum employee contribution after six months.
- An annual profit-sharing bonus for employees recognizes our team’s contributions to company performance across the year.
- We are a 100% distributed team. You are also welcome to come into our Seattle or Boston offices.
- Our remote office allowance includes:
- $1000 home office allowance plus an additional $800 for equipment
- Up to $400 monthly reimbursement for coworking space rental
- We provide a flexible environment with a generous vacation policy that encourages a minimum of four weeks PTO per year plus 13 paid company holidays.
Why Work With Us
Join a team working to make great software that helps people understand data and make better decisions. If you're kind, humble, and curious — you belong here. The best work happens when employees are well-supported. We want you to feel safe bringing your whole self to work.
