Senior Software Engineer
RStudio
About the Team
Join the passionate and humble team behind Posit Workbench, where we strive for continual improvement and love making better 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.
Be part of an engineering team that creates scalable, cloud-integrated solutions, helping enterprises optimize their data workflows while working in an environment that values growth, innovation, and teamwork.
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 the designs of others’ features, and investigate challenging bugs and customer issues. In addition, you will apply your knowledge of Linux administration and security best practices to enhance the platform through your own design implementations, peer reviews, and continual improvements, ensuring that Posit Workbench remains secure, efficient, and robust.
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.
What you’ll own:
- design and development of Workbench features for launching and managing data science IDE sessions in a cluster (multi-threaded C++, Linux)
- designing your features to be observable and scalable
- gathering and responding to stakeholder feedback about features
- driving an outstanding customer experience through creativity, product-mindedness, and technical innovation
What you’ll help with:
- developing multilingual features, including C++, Go, Rust, Python, and Typescript
- influencing what we build, and how we build it
- defining and iterating on team process
- creating automated tests
- supporting enterprise Workbench customers
- reviewing feature specifications and pull requests
What you’ll learn:
- an 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
After 1-month:
You will have implemented your first couple of small features or bug fixes. Your development environment will be set up, and you will be comfortable with the basic development process of the team.
After 3-months:
You will have started to build up an understanding of the needs of RStudio Workbench administrators. You may have identified a particular area of the product where you want to take a deeper dive and eventually take ownership. You are participating in supporting customers with another member of the team leading the effort. You are contributing to the code reviews of other team members, particularly for your areas of expertise.
After 12-months:
You provide extensive design and code review feedback on the features of other team members. You are confident working in one or two major areas and comfortable exploring new areas of the product. You are comfortable taking the lead in supporting customers. You have an understanding of our build and automated test system and are able to investigate failures and add new features and automated tests to them.
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.
- 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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