Senior Software Engineer – New York City

Who you are:

In this role, you will be building a complete DevOps platform for Industrial Automation. You will solve scaling problems as we roll out our backup solution to orders of magnitude more devices.

As a senior engineer, you’ll make architectural decisions, provide technical guidance to other team members, and help set the technical direction of the product.

Building products for the industrial automation space requires knowledge that is uncommon to most software engineering jobs. In your day-to-day, you will learn about a wide variety of industrial automation topics.

About us

Copia Automation brings modern developer tools to industrial automation. We have three core offerings:Git-based version control for PLC & HMI projects with advanced PLC file renderingAutomated PLC backups from the factory floor that integrate into Git historyAI Copilot that integrates context from your projects in version control. We are a well-funded startup, 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 do:

Solve hard, ambiguous scaling problems with our automated backup solution

Expand the capabilities of the DeviceLink Agent to new parts of the DevOps lifecycle, like monitoring or deployment

Support the enterprise user management features of Copia

Learn from your teammates, as well as mentor them with new information. Much of this learning will come via our strong code review culture.

Develop high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions

Write clear documentation for technical and non-technical audiences

What you’ll need:

4+ years experience as a software engineer on a team using standard best practices (code review, CI/CD, etc.)

Demonstrated ability to own large, ambiguous software projects and drive them to production. Ideally, these projects have involved you leading other developers.

Proficiency with a statically-typed language (we mostly use Go & C# in the backend, but it doesn’t have to be one of those)

Strong communication and collaboration skills, including writing. You should be good at clearly explaining complex topics, even to people without a deep background in that topic.

Demonstrated ability to learn new information and build reliable software based on that information

Ability to write clear documentation and technical specifications

Strong problem-solving skills with pragmatic software decision making

Nice to haves:

Experience at a growth-stage, venture-backed start-up, scaling up tools from small betas to thousands or millions of users

Experience with Go

Experience with job execution frameworks

Experience with enterprise user management (OAuth, SAML, OIDC, SCIM)

Bonus: Experience/Interest in industrial automation and Programmable Logic Controllers

Bonus: Experience with Git internals, CI/CD, or DevOps platforms

Bonus: Experience building developer tools

$152,000 – $195,000 a year

In addition to salary, full-time Copia employees are granted equity shares and generous benefits, including unlimited PTO.

Location

We are hiring engineers to join our headquarters in New York City. You will be expected to come into the office on a hybrid basis. Relocation assistance to New York City may be provided for those moving to join Copia HQ.

Come join us!

Copia is growing extraordinarily fast. Join a best-in-class start-up with huge amounts of upside and impact. Our headquarters is in New York, but our team is remote throughout North America.

At Copia, we don’t just accept differences — we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our customers, and our community. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. If you’re good at what you do, come as you are. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Copia is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.