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.
What you’ll own:
- 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
What you’ll help with:
- 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
About you:
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.
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
- 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.
