About us

Copia Automation brings modern developer tools to industrial automation. Our product provides Git-based source control for automation professionals. We are a well-funded startup and with a growing list of happy customers from throughout the industrial space.

As a Copia employee, you’ll solve challenging, unique, and meaningful problems alongside passionate coworkers, while we change the way everything gets built.

Why industrial automation?

Today, manufacturing is powered by an ecosystem of computerized systems and robotics known as industrial automation. Special-purpose industrial computers called PLCs are used to automate factories, warehouses, and even amusement parks. This ecosystem is programmed with a unique graphical language that doesn’t work with typical developer tools such as GitLab or GitHub. Instead, automation professionals have to use physical storage devices, incompatible tools, and incomplete solutions. When minutes of downtime can represent tens of thousands of dollars, better development tools are urgently needed.

Engineering at Copia

The Copia engineering team solves problems through collaboration, experimentation, and ownership. We pair on tough issues and look for ways to test our assumptions. You’ll join a team that encourages ownership and values pragmatic solutions: weighing short-term needs and long-term goals.

Finally, we’re optimistic. We celebrate successes, support each other through unexpected challenges, and approach problems with a positive attitude.

What You’ll be Building

Our product has a few possible delivery methods including self-hosted and fully-hosted options. As such, we need the ability to build and test our web application so that it can be deployed to a variety of different cloud providers and on-premise infrastructure. You will build tooling to enable an efficient software development lifecycle (SDLC) capable of delivering to cross-platform targets.

Our cloud offering has some unique qualities that pose interesting scaling and reliability challenges. As we onboard new customers, we must maintain a high bar for service availability and performance while handling customer data using best-in-class security practices. You will use your knowledge of cloud native design principles to architect infrastructure capable of taking us through several more years of growth.

Salary Range: $190,000 - $240,000

What you have

8+ years professional experience in Software Engineering
Demonstrable experience with Go, React, TypeScript
Experience with GitExcellent written communication skills
Expert on software standard best practices
Demonstrated strong fundamentals and pragmatic software decision making
Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team

Nice to haves

Interest in or experience with the internals of Git
Experience building highly available systems at scale
Experience building developer tools
Experience/Interest in manufacturing and hardware innovation (EE or ME)
Experience/Interest in industrial automation and Programmable Logic Controllers
Experience at a hyper-growth, venture-backed start-up

What you'll be doing

Write, review, and maintain code
Own and advocate for the health and quality of our code and infrastructure
Document architecture designs, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can better serve our users
Coordinate with engineering and product owners to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives
Provide technical direction, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of our team
Ability to understand and empathize with our users and our community
Be a role model to help create a supportive culture across our teams, where differing views can be shared and heard

Location

Our headquarters is in New York and our team is remote throughout North America. Relocation assistance to New York City will be provided for those that are interested in working out of Copia HQ.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

At Copia, we believe that diverse thinking leads to innovative solutions and allows us to develop the best products. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.

If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Staff Software Engineer