Remote Senior Geospatial Software Engineer — Hyperscale

Ocient; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocient is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to extend its geospatial engine, owning key components end-to-end from spherical math correctness to query performance at hyperscale. You will work on a small team with significant surface area and influence across the engine.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, collaboration with Product and customers, and writing tests and design docs to ensure robust, scalable spatial functionality across trillions of rows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software systems, including solid experience in C++.
• Strong grasp of computational geometry and, critically, spherical/geodetic geometry.
• Exposure to geospatial data, standards, or libraries: WGS84 and geodetic datums, OGC/WKT/WKB, GEOS, S2, H3, PostGIS, or equivalent.
• Comfort with performance engineering such as profiling, algorithmic optimization, and reasoning about work at scale.
• Strong instincts around numerical correctness and edge cases, and the discipline to encode them in tests and documentation.
• Ability to work across teams and codebases and turn ambiguous requirements into concrete solutions.

Responsibilities

• Core spatial engine: extend and harden the 120+ geospatial function library across accessors, constructors, measures, predicates, spatial operators, transformations, and parsers/formatters (WKT, WKB, EWKT, GeoHash).
• Spherical correctness: ensure geodesics and great-circle distances are accurate under WGS84 models with edge-case handling.
• Performance and indexing: enable fast spatial predicates, joins, and range queries on trillion-row datasets with indexing, pruning, and vectorized evaluation.
• Spatiotemporal analytics: enhance space-time operators, trajectory reconstruction, interpolation along lines, and movement analysis.
• Convergence with the engine: connect geospatial to other analytical surfaces and in-database ML for unified queries.
• Customer-driven scope: apply geospatial across telco, adtech, and national security workloads with product/customer teams.

Skills

C++

Computational geometry

Geospatial standards

Performance engineering

Numerical correctness

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

GEOS

S2

H3

PostGIS

OGC/WKT/WKB

Job description

Ocient is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to extend its geospatial engine, owning key components end-to-end from spherical math correctness to query performance at hyperscale. You will work on a small team with significant surface area and influence across the engine.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, collaboration with Product and customers, and writing tests and design docs to ensure robust, scalable spatial functionality across trillions of rows.