Software Engineer, Workbench

About The Team

Join the passionate team behind Posit Workbench, where we're always learning and working to deliver exceptional experiences for our customers. You'll contribute to building a cutting-edge platform that empowers data science teams to collaborate seamlessly across R, Python, and more.

Even though we're a remote team we try to stay connected through (optional) weekly coffee chats and monthly online games. The team comprises about 15 people, working in small sub-teams of 2-3 developers and 1-2 QA engineers. We rotate teams each feature cycle to facilitate knowledge transfer and reduce silos.

About The Role

In this role, you will exercise your technical expertise to design features that have a major impact on the whole product, review feature designs from other engineers, and investigate challenging bugs and customer issues.

People who thrive in this role tend to be highly accountable, driven, collaborative, curious, and open-minded. They have a strong sense of ownership over their own features as well as the whole product.

About You

You have 2+ years of professional experience writing software in Rust or C++ on Linux or macOS.
You're familiar with SQL and building services backed by relational databases
You're user-focused and mission-driven, facilitating data science and education for everyone.
You share our commitment to robust design, clean and well-tested code, and creating delightful user experiences.
You break down complex problems into bite-size tasks and drive them to completion.
You approach your work and collaboration with empathy, humility, and pragmatism.

What You'll Own

Developing Workbench features and bug fixes for launching and managing data science IDE sessions in a cluster.
Gathering and incorporating stakeholder feedback about features.
Driving an exceptional customer experience through creativity, product-mindedness, and technical innovation.

What You'll Help With

Designing and developing features using multiple languages.
Designing your features to be observable, scalable, and maintainable.
Influencing what we build, and how we build it.
Defining and iterating on team processes.
Creating automated unit and end-to-end tests.
Supporting enterprise Workbench customers and troubleshooting issues.
Reviewing feature specifications and pull requests.
Understanding our documentation and improving accuracy, clarity and coverage.
Fostering and maintaining an inclusive, supportive team environment.

What You'll Teach

Design patterns and anti-patterns learned from prior experiences.
The tools, tips, and tricks that make your professional life easier.

What You'll Learn

Familiarity with Linux system administration tools and how to develop features that utilize them.
Exposure to additional programming languages like Go, Typescript, and python.
How to integrate enterprise software with cloud computing platforms like AWS, Azure, and leverage technologies like Kubernetes and Slurm.
How to integrate enterprise software with various authentication and authorization methods, such as OpenID and SAML.
A deeper appreciation for data science workflows and how data science teams work.
Systems that enable businesses to host modern IDEs in secure environments at scale.
How to extend IDEs like VS Code, Positron, and RStudio with features that support code-first data science.

What To Expect

Within 1 month:

You will have implemented your first small feature or bug fix with support from your on-boarding partner. Your development environment will be set up, and you will be comfortable with the basic development process of the team. You will be regularly meeting with a mentor.

Within 3 Months

You will have started to build up an understanding of the needs of Posit Workbench administrators. You will have begun to develop a broad understanding of the components of Workbench and how they interact with each other. You will be participating in supporting customers with support from other members of the team. You will be familiar with our documentation and how to use it to aid in troubleshooting issues. You will be contributing to the code reviews of other team members.

After 12-months

You will develop, present, and own the several features you've added into the product. You will provide design and code review feedback on the features of other team members. You will be confident working in one or two major areas of the product and comfortable exploring new areas. You will be comfortable investigating and taking ownership of customer support tickets. You will have an understanding of our build and automated test system and will be able to investigate failures and add new features and automated tests to them.

Posit offers competitive compensation with extensive human-first, people-focused benefits to prioritize your personal and financial well-being. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, and skillset. This hiring range reflects base salary and assumes that the job will be performed in the United States.

Hiring Range

$132,700—$175,120 USD

Working At Posit

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. These benefits apply to full-time positions only.

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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