About the Role
At Plotly, our customers depend on us for their mission-critical data analysis needs. In this TechOps engineer role, you'll work with code, colleagues, and customers to build Plotly's core products and improve their robustness and scalability.
Duties &Responsibilities
- Develop the core functionality of Plotly's enterprise products, with a particular focus on Dash application management capabilities (similar to Heroku)
- Improve reliability, testing, automation, observability, and performance throughout our stack
- Help out as we work to scale Dash Enterprise to more demanding customer requirements in diverse cloud and physical environments
- Identify and communicate product and documentation improvements
Requirements
Technical skills (these periods may overlap):
- 4 years or more of experience writing code as part of your job (in any language)
- 3 years or more of Linux systems administration and generalist networking experience
- 2 years of Kubernetes experience
- 1 year or more of experience with backend web application development
- 1 year or more of experience with Python and Git
- Useful familiarity with Docker
- Preferred: Some past experience with one or more of reliability, testing, automation, observability, and performance work
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 small feature improvements or refactorings
- Requires only modest supervision and assistance to drive medium feature improvements or refactorings
- Preferred: Is willing to work in our Montréal headquarters, or elsewhere in Canada
- If not working in Montréal, has demonstrated success in a remote technical engineer role
Assets
- Some familiarity with any of LDAP, SAML, Windows enterprise systems administration, Flask, Django, public cloud environments, and/or Kubernetes
- 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
- Prior technical leadership experience