Responsibilities:
- Design and build demo infrastructure: Develop and maintain the software architecture that powers Tractian’s demos, including APIs, data pipelines, and databases.
- Simulate real-world data: Build tools, scripts, and APIs that generate realistic scenarios for demo environments.
- Ensure reliability: Monitor and optimize demo uptime and performance, ensuring fast recovery and minimal downtime during sales calls, trade shows, and executive presentations.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with Engineering, Product, and Sales to ensure the demo stack stays current with production and reflects new product capabilities.
- Empower internal teams: Build internal APIs, dashboards, and admin tools that enable AEs and SEs to deploy, reset, and customize demo environments on demand.
- Document and version: Maintain detailed documentation, configuration tracking, and version control across all demo assets and infrastructure.
- Continuously improve: Analyze usage data, environment performance, and sales feedback to prioritize new features and enhancements.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field — or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Full-stack Engineering, or backend Engineering.
- Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Experience building with Node.js and React frameworks.
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design best practices.
- Experience with SQL databases (e.g., Postgres).
- Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, ScyllaDB).
- Familiarity with Git/GitHub workflows for branching, merging, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid understanding of software security fundamentals (encryption, authentication, access control).
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and manage tasks using Jira.
- Experience training or enabling technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven ability to design repeatable, scalable architectures for globally distributed teams.
- Alignment with Tractian’s mission and values.
- Bonus Points If You:
- Have built or deployed systems using microservices.
- Are comfortable working with data serialization formats like JSON, XML, CSV, or YAML.
- Have tinkered with CI/CD automation or infrastructure-as-code.
- Enjoy coding in Python, Rust, Go, or C/C++ when the situation calls for it.
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What We Do
Tractian is a machine intelligence company that offers industrial monitoring systems. Tractian builds streamlined hardware-software solutions to give maintenance technicians and industrial decision-makers comprehensive oversight of their operations. It is democratizing access to sophisticated real-time monitoring and asset operations tools.
Tractian's solutions are used in environments that address a combined total of 5% of global industrial output. The company’s broad market reach is evidenced in its customer base from various industries, such as John Deere, Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Goodyear, Carrier, Johnson Controls, and Bimbo, the owner of the brands Little Bites and Thomas Bagels. Tractian's customers see a 6-12x ROI with savings of $6,000 per monitored machine annually on average.
In a major milestone and a first for the industry, Tractian launched the AI-Assisted Maintenance category in the industrial sector. In this new paradigm, artificial intelligence identifies machine problems and suggests preventive actions to be taken, giving invaluable insight and support to maintenance professionals. It is important to highlight that the intent of Assisted Maintenance is firmly rooted in augmenting maintenance professionals to provide more assertive diagnosis with human-in-the-loop feedback.
Tractian's mission is to elevate this category of workers in a highly impactful way. The Assisted Maintenance category will provide unimaginable support for maintenance professionals. By combining shop floor expertise with our technology, maintainers will be able to anticipate and address issues with unprecedented accuracy and speed
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