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\nRStudio is seeking a candidate for a Software Engineer (Infrastructure) to join the RStudio Cloud team. RStudio Cloud is a software as a service product designed to help professionals, teachers, trainers, students and hobbyists to more easily do, share, teach, and learn data science using RStudio’s best in class IDE, with the convenience of cloud computing.\n\nAbout the job\n\nRStudio Cloud is powered by a wide range of exciting technologies. Some of the things we use every day to build amazing products include Python 3 (asyncio / tornado), Docker, Kubernetes, Ceph, Apache Kafka, Traefik, Envoy, Postgres, InfluxDB and others. If you have experience with or a passion on any of these, then this might be the right place for you.\n\nIn this position, you will be a member of a team working on the core infrastructure services that power RStudio Cloud. Everyday the RStudio Cloud runs thousands of containers across multiple Kubernetes clusters and stores petabytes of data in the high scale distributed storage system, Ceph. We are looking for candidates who share a passion for tackling complexity and building platforms that can scale multiple orders of magnitude. You will be responsible for the scalability and performance of our infrastructure as the platform continues to grow, including:\n\n\n* designing, building, testing, and maintaining core backend services for the RStudio Cloud platform,\n\n* instrumenting, analyzing, and mitigating performance issues and scalability constraints, \n\n* participating in product planning, requirements gathering, and capacity planning discussions,\n\n* monitoring and troubleshooting production environments, including participation in an on-call rotation,\n\n* continuously testing and deploying software using cloud-native technologies,\n\n* giving and receiving feedback from other engineers in the form of code reviews and design sessions,\n\n* supporting our users via support tickets and through our community forums.\n\n\n\n\nAbout you\n\nYou are customer-focused and are driven by our mission to facilitate science and education for everyone. You share our commitment to building great software, and you have an appreciation for elegant design, clean code, and delightful user experiences. You love to learn and to help others succeed. You are humble, pragmatic, deliberate, and you have a keen sense of empathy for your co-workers and customers. You also have:\n\n\n* 5+ years of programming experience in a professional environment using a high-level, object-oriented language (Python, Go, Java, Node.js, C#, or similar)\n\n* a demonstrated understanding of scalable systems architecture and design,\n\n* a deep knowledge of designing, building and operating microservice based systems architectures,\n\n* a familiarity with building software using cloud-native technologies on Amazon Web Services, \n\n* strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a remote setting,\n\n* a love of well-written documentation, \n\n* and a passion for leaving things better than you found them.\n\n\n\n\nAbout us\n\nWe are a fun-loving and diverse group who share a passion for building high-quality software and delivering a great user experience. Our team members live in various locations across the United States (and occasionally elsewhere!) and work together via Slack, holding regularly scheduled and ad-hoc video calls, and communicating our ideas through documents, images, and code (and code reviews). \n\n\n* We welcome all talented engineers and are committed to a culture that represents diversity in all its forms.\n\n* We prioritize giving engineers “focus time” to get deep work done. We minimize meetings and attempt to operate asynchronously.\n\n* We are a learning organization and take mentorship and career growth seriously. We hope to learn from you and we anticipate that you will also deepen your skills, influence, and leadership as a result of working at RStudio.\n\n* We operate under a unique sustainable business model: 50% of engineering we do at RStudio is open source. We are profitable and we plan to be around twenty years from now.\n\n\n\n\nNotable\n\n\n* 100% distributed team with minimal travel\n\n* Competitive compensation with great benefits including:\n\n* Medical/Dental/Vision insurance (100% of premiums covered) \n\n* 401k Matching\n\n* A home office allowance or reimbursement for a coworking space\n\n* A profit-sharing system\n\n* Flexible environment with a generous vacation policy\n\n\n\n\nRStudio is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applicants of different backgrounds, cultures, genders, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Video, Amazon, Education, Cloud, Python, Apache and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

Do you have a passion for helping customers build games? Do you have a knack for helping engineers, artists, and designers understand game architectures and integration approaches and help them launch their backend features? Are you one of those rare technologists with the communications, consultative, and leadership skills to help guide major projects to success? The Amazon Game Services Solutions Architecture team is hiring!\n \nIn this role, you will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of Amazon's Game Services (including AWS for storage, compute, analytics, data warehousing, application hosting and scaling, disaster recovery and backup and many more). In collaboration with our technology and business teams, you will drive growth across a broad set of customers. You will interact with established yet very fast moving customers eager to adopt AWS for their biggest games within a very short time frame. You will posses customer facing skills that allow you to represent Amazon well within a customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, and risk management. Your ability to connect technology with measurable business value will be critical in the solutions architect role. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.\n \n Here are some other qualities we are looking for:\n \n Be great fun to work with. At Amazon, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.\n \n Enjoy working with customers of all shapes and sizes. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud computing systems for a diverse and challenging set of customers whether they are large or small.\n \n Have a strong understanding of game development. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a senior engineer on a game team. You have deep experience with gameplay systems, middleware, game engines, and development tools.You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so that you can make strong contributions to architecture discussions. You regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world class solutions built on AWS game technologies.\n \nRoles and Responsibilities:\n* As a key member of the business development team, ensure success in building and migrating games and entertainment apps with Amazon and AWS technology.\n* Educate customers of all size on the value proposition of our services, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment on our devices and in the cloud.\n* Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer deep technical skills to customers considering or using Amazon's game services.\n* Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solution architect community\n* In collaboration with business development, you will drive adoption across a broad set of customers\n* Author or otherwise contribute to customer-facing publications such as whitepapers\n* Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customer accounts to enable them to be our advocates\n* Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support\n\n\n\n* 5+ years game development experience, with deep experience in one or more of the following areas:\n o Software design or development\n o Infrastructure architecture\n o 3D rendering\n o Game physics\n o Gameplay scripting\n o Database architecture\n o Multiplayer networking\n o Game backend technology\no Asset pipelines\no Performance tuning and optimization\n\n\n* Working knowledge of development methodologies with one or more of the following languages: C++, .NET, Lua, Java\n* Strong written communication skills; this role will require the creation of content such as whitepapers and other written deliverables\n* High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and external organizations\n* The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect\n* Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly\n\n\n\n* Experience with both console and mobile games\n* Experience with off-the-shelf game engines such as Unity, Unreal, or CryEngine\n* Experience with industry standard tools and middleware, such as Maya, 3DSMax, Havok, Scaleform, etc\n* Professional experience architecting systems built with Amazon Web Services\n* Professional experience operating systems built with Amazon Web Services\n* Technical degree: Computer Science background highly desired\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Architecture, Amazon, Education, Cloud, Mobile, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n