Software Engineer

About this role

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.
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