Senior Backend Engineer at Sight Machine, Inc.

We are looking for team members to help us build, maintain, and improve the application that

Requirements

• 2+ years of industry experience building robust backend systems
• Expertise with Python required, including debugging and testing
• Can operate independently without detailed requirements
• Can dive into code authored by others and understand and debug it
• Ability to communicate effectively outside your immediate team, including with
• customers, partners, and vendors

Nice to Have

• Prior experience with Manufacturing and Historian technologies (eg OPC-UA,
• OLEDB, Proficy, Wonderware, OSI Pi)
• Experience with the pandas data analysis library and SQLAlchemy a plus
• Experience with implementing and debugging network protocols
• Unix/Linux experience with shell commands and scripting
• Experience with cloud technologies like AWS, GCP, Azure

Description

Sight Machine strengthens manufacturers by providing the industry’s only platform for standard
data models and system-level visualization capabilities. By integrating all crucial data into a
single platform, everyone involved in the manufacturing process can visualize, contextualize
and examine data in one intuitive interface.
We are looking for team members to help us build, maintain, and improve the application that
makes Sight Machine the leading provider of manufacturing data pipelines and analytics. In this
role you will work on our connectivity solution, building tools which enable data extraction from
many different modern and legacy sources in the manufacturing enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Take a lead role in the development lifecycle, including planning, coding, testing,
• architecture, and documentation
• Participate in code review and work to continuously improve the quality of the
• codebase
• Monitor, diagnose, and resolve bugs and performance bottlenecks in the end-to-end
• system

Location

• San Francisco (ability to work in US required)

• We value you at and outside of work and know your loved ones are important. Our benefits are
• designed to support you and your family’s health through life’s expected and unexpected
• events.

Our Benefits Include:

• Competitive Salary + Equity
• Health Care Coverage + Life Insurance + Health Savings Account + Flexible
• Spending Account (includes spouse + children)
• Flexible Vacation Policy
• Adaptable Working Schedule and Environment

Our Perks Include:

• Designated Volunteering Hours + Group Volunteer Events
• Catered Lunches, Snacks and Beverages
• Commuter Savings Program
• Company Outings
• On-site Library

Tech Stack

• Frontend: Javascript, React, Redux
• Backend: Python, Flask, Pandas, SQLAlchemy, nginx
• Deployment: Azure, Balena, Kubernetes, Helm, CircleCI

About Sight Machine

Founded in Michigan in 2011 and expanded to San Francisco in 2012, Sight Machine blends

the spirit of technology innovation and the down to earth style of Detroit manufacturing. Our

team includes early leadership from Yahoo, Tesla Motors and Oracle. Together, we share wide

industry knowledge and a commitment to advance manufacturing to a more sustainable future.

Sight Machine is committed and mission-driven to improve lives, strengthen communities and

make the world cleaner through continuously re-envisioning manufacturing processes - making

them more efficient, sustainable and absolute.

Sight Machine is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers candidates

regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age,

citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Sight Machine also

considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal

requirements.