Senior Backend and Infrastructure Engineer - remote

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