Senior Data Engineer, Data Ingestion

Overstory; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A mission-driven technology company in the United States is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for their Data Ingestion team. The role involves ingesting and curating satellite imagery and geospatial data, optimizing data processing systems, and mentoring junior engineers. Ideal candidates will have over 6 years of experience in Data Engineering, a passion for climate initiatives, and proficiency with technologies like Python and GCP. The position offers a flexible remote work environment and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Remote working budget

Educational budget

Time to develop new skills

Equity and competitive salary

Qualifications

• Approximately 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering.
• Comfortable working in a build it, run it environment.
• Ability to design and implement scalable and resilient systems.

Responsibilities

• Ingest satellite imagery and geospatial data from external sources.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and create new processes.
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate across the organization.

Skills

Data Engineering

Python

Data pipelines

GCP

Grafana

Kubernetes

Geospatial data engineering

Tools

GDAL/OGR

PostGIS DB

QGIS

Job description

The role

We are hiring a Senior Data Engineer for our Data Ingestion team. This role will focus on ingesting satellite imagery and other geospatial data from external sources, and curating that data for downstream teams.

In this role you will contribute by building and maintaining data pipelines, creating new processes to efficiently scale our data processing and/or modeling capabilities, and mentoring more junior engineers. You will collaborate heavily with your team members and people all across the organization.

What you will do

Over the next 6-12 months you will be working on:

• Optimizing existing processes and creating new systems.
• Reduce the amount of manual work required to process different types of geospatial data.
• Performance & Scalability: ensure that our processes can handle 3x YoY growth

You will be an influential member of the team taking the lead on and contributing to key initiatives. Additionally you will coach and mentor other engineers on the team.

About You

• Passionate about climate
• Approximately 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering.
• Product minded and able to demonstrate significant impact you have had on a business through the application of technology
• Proven experience of data engineering across the following (or similar) technologies: Python, Data pipelines etc.
• Comfortable working in a build it, run it environment (GCP, cloud run, grafana, k8s) - or similar.
• Ability to design and implement scalable and resilient systems.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies and industry trends.
• You are based in GMT/ CET/ EST time zone

Nice to Have

• Proven experience of Geospatial data engineering across the following (or similar) technologies: GDAL/OGR, PostGIS DB, QGIS

What you get

• To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
• Equity and a competitive salary.

About our team

We are a group of 85 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from nine different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Canada. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.

Diversity & Inclusion

We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.

We’re always looking to diversify our team further, but we’re proud of the fact that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 46% of the overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Estonian, Danish and Korean.

Our values

Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.

We act with urgency.

Our curiosity fuels our growth.

We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.

We’re rooted in diversity.

Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.

We care for each other.

We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.

Trust is fundamental.

We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.