About the Role
At Plotly, our customers depend on us for their mission-critical data analysis needs. In this Backend and Infrastructure Engineer role, you'll work with code, colleagues, and customers to build Plotly's core products and improve their robustness and scalability.
Duties &Responsibilities:
- Architect and develop the core functionality of Plotly's enterprise products, with a particular focus on Dash application management capabilities (similar to Heroku)
- Lead efforts to improve reliability, testing, automation, observability, and performance throughout our stack
- Tackle big problems as we work to scale Dash Enterprise to more demanding customer requirements in diverse cloud and physical environments
- Identify and advocate for product, documentation, and engineering quality improvements
Requirements
Technical skills (these periods may overlap):
- 6 years or more of experience writing code as part of your job (in any language)
- 5 years or more of Linux systems administration and generalist networking experience
- 3 years or more of experience with Python and Git
- 1 year or more of experience with backend web application development
- Proficient with Docker
- Past experience with one or more cloud Providers (Azure, GCP and AWS)
- Some past experience with one or more of reliability, testing, automation, observability, and performance work
- Preferred: Some familiarity with any of LDAP, SAML, Windows enterprise systems administration, Flask, Django, public cloud environments, and/or Kubernetes
- Preferred: prior technical leadership experience
Professional requirements:
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Able to follow and produce documentation instructions
- Ability to debug, troubleshoot, and seek answers autonomously before asking colleagues for help
- Can drive the full architecture and development cycle of large feature improvements or refactorings
- Able to mentor and supervise junior and intermediate colleagues
- Collaborative within the team and across the whole company
Assets
- Frontend programming experience (Javascript, CSS, React or Vue)
- Prior experience with Plotly graphing library or Dash app technologies, in either open source or enterprise forms
- Interest in data visualization or data science generally
- Is willing to work in our Montréal headquarters, or elsewhere in Canada
What We Can Offer You:
- A way to put your skills to use enabling people around the world to better understand their data and make better decisions
- Membership in an exciting and vigorous open-source ecosystem: most or all of what you will work on will be publicly available forever
- Knowledge-sharing with smart, motivated colleagues and folks working at the most sophisticated companies in the world
- Flexible work hours and generous paid time off
- A promote-from-within philosophy
- Health benefits
- Company stock options