Principal Software Engineer, Performance (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Posit PBC is seeking a Principal Software Engineer specializing in performance and scalability to lead the development of strategic tools for their professional products. The role involves creating an open-source benchmarking tool, establishing performance standards, and fostering a performance-oriented culture within the engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and champion a reusable, open-source benchmarking tool. This tool will be a cornerstone of our performance strategy, providing a consistent and extensible platform for both internal engineering teams and customers.

• Establish the performance and load baselines for our professional products. You will work with teams to understand their existing performance tests and use this along with the benchmarking tool to determine what good looks like.

• Develop and maintain dashboards for internal visibility on performance. Using the tools and tests, you will maintain a centralized dashboard for tracking.

• Cultivate a "performance-first" mindset across our engineering organization. You will be a key teacher and mentor, elevating the knowledge of our development teams.

• Work with product and engineering leaders to embed performance into our roadmaps.

• Meet with customers to explain how they can best use our products and listen to what they need.

Qualifications:

Required:

• At least 8+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record of building developer tools, testing frameworks, observability platforms, or other high-leverage, systems-level software.

• Strong, fundamental understanding of Linux systems, Kubernetes, and how software performance is impacted by underlying compute, storage, and networking infrastructure.

• Deep and practical understanding of performance analysis, load testing methodologies, and scalability engineering for complex distributed systems.

• Proficient in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, C++) and enthusiastic about learning the languages and technologies used across the Posit ecosystem.

• Curious and excited about exploring AI technologies, including how LLMs might be leveraged in the development of the new benchmarking tool.

• Exceptional communicator and mentor who finds satisfaction in helping other engineers learn and succeed.

• User-focused, pragmatic, and deliberate in approach to problem-solving, with a keen sense of empathy for both coworkers and the users served.

• Driven by the mission to facilitate science and education for everyone and appreciates the unique values of working for a Public Benefit Corporation.

Company:

The open-source data science company for the individual, team and enterprise. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage. Posit PBC has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.