Senior Software Engineer — Geothermal Distributed Systems

Stanford Climate Ventures

Salt Lake City, Northern (UT, KY)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 200,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays
PTO accrual increase
Medical, dental and vision
401k
Stock options
Growth opportunities

Job summary

Zanskar is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to design and maintain a multi-physics well-targeting engine. You will lead a distributed compute system, scale it for research teams, and collaborate with geophysicists, seismologists, and engineers to tackle geothermal discovery challenges.

You will learn the domain from your peers and contribute by teaching advanced distributed systems practices while advancing our cloud-based infrastructure and AI/ML modeling efforts.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 7+ years of software engineering experience in a business environment with a scientific component.
  • Experience leading the design and implementation of distributed computing systems.
  • Proven skills in fault-tolerant, event-driven architectures and scalable cloud workloads (serverless, Kubernetes, VM fleets).
  • Experience with persistent data storage using RDBMS and cloud blob storage at scale.
  • Observability through logging, monitoring, alerting and metrics.
  • CI/CD, GitHub, containerization (Docker), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi).
  • Experience managing cloud resources (GCP, AWS) and fluency in Python and SQL.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a reliable distributed compute system meeting ongoing scientific research needs.
  • Learn the domain from peers and migrate the system for scale and reliability.
  • Collaborate with geophysicists, geoscientists, seismologists and engineers on hard problems.
  • Teach and share distributed systems engineering skills across the team.

Job description

Zanskar is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to design and maintain a multi-physics well-targeting engine. You will lead a distributed compute system, scale it for research teams, and collaborate with geophysicists, seismologists, and engineers to tackle geothermal discovery challenges.

You will learn the domain from your peers and contribute by teaching advanced distributed systems practices while advancing our cloud-based infrastructure and AI/ML modeling efforts.

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