Data Engineer, Posit
+ An annual profit-sharing bonus
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Open source and enterprise ready tools
Open for applications
Open source and enterprise ready tools
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ An annual profit-sharing bonus
More information about location
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 5+ years of professional experience writing software to manage data pipelines and infrastructure
- You are user-focused and driven 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 able to act as a champion of data engineering and lead related internal efforts
- You have a strong proficiency in Python, SQL, database management (both relational and non-relational), and have the ability to become an expert in our current toolchain, including dbt and Amazon S3
- You are familiar with a broad set of data engineering tools, including Parquet and Iceberg, and are comfortable recommending new tools when they are the best solution for business problems
- You love to learn and help others succeed through code reviews and other forms of mentorship
- You are humble, pragmatic, deliberate, and you have a keen sense of empathy for your co-workers and users
What the job involves
- Posit is seeking our first Data Engineer as part of our Data Science Center of Excellence team
- In this position, you will be responsible for the infrastructure that stores Posit’s corporate data, operating the software used for corporate data science, the third-party integrations that bring data in, and the ETL/ELT code and tools that process the data
- As part of the Data Science Center of Excellence team, you will work closely with the CloudOps, Security, and Enterprise Information Management teams to ensure the integrity and governance of our data, and with other teams throughout the organization in order to ensure the right data is in the right place so we can make data driven decisions to help us achieve our goals
- You will also work closely with end users of data pipelines across the organization to understand their specific problems and collaborate to plan and develop ETL/ELT pipelines contributing to solutions
- The operational excellence, reliability, and security of our data infrastructure and services, and advocate for investments to improve them
- The infrastructure, operations, and deployment pipelines of our data infrastructure
- Ensuring that new features and functionality are designed and built with operational considerations, scalability, cost effectiveness, and sustainability in mind
- Ensuring appropriate metrics and monitoring are in place to provide actionable alerting with a high signal to noise ratio
- Improving our infrastructure as code and continuous integration and deployment pipelines on consistent basis
- Planning and executing tasks related to the company’s data governance strategy
- Giving and receiving feedback from other engineers in the form of code reviews and blameless post-mortems
- Cross-functional collaboration working closely with teams across the organization to ensure data availability and support critical company operations, reporting, and data science projects
- What you’ll teach:
- Anti-patterns learned from prior experiences handling operational incidents
- The tools, tips, and tricks that make your professional life easier
- What you’ll learn:
- Our current ETL/ELT toolchain of Fivetran, dbt, and Glue along with data storage tools including Amazon Redshift and S3
- Metrics and monitoring using Datadog
- Infrastructure as code using Pulumi and Python
- The Posit products and how their data science customers work
- Within 1 month you will:
- Get to know the larger Data Science COE and CloudOps teams and how we create, deliver and maintain software
- Build and prioritize a backlog of work
- Within 3 months you will:
- Begin replacing existing business-critical data pipelines using our ETL/ELT toolchain
- Establish process to take ownership of existing data pipelines to actively maintain and monitor for consistency and accuracy of data
- Within 6 months you will:
- Own or demonstrate expertise in multiple areas of our data infrastructure and pipelines
- Research problems and new technologies and effectively communicate findings to the team
- Identify underutilized or challenging data sources and develop enhanced data pipelines to unlock their potential for driving improved business outcomes
- Propose significant projects and lead them
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, and 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
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 values
- Open - We aim for transparency in the way we make and share tools—and the way we manage our company. We believe that great ideas come from anywhere—and that we’re better together.
- Resourceful - Intelligence is more than ‘book smart’ or ‘tech smart.’ It’s a mindset. To better serve everyone in our community we value continuous learning, curiosity, and emotional intelligence.
- Generous - We collaborate with our customers, the community, and each other with open hearts and minds. And we believe the effort, capital, and care we put out into the world benefits everyone in the end.
- Lasting - We want to remain an independent company for the long term. We make investments with this goal in mind, starting with our people. Our benefits programs are designed to ensure the long-term wellbeing of our teams.
Company HQ
South Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA
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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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