Senior Software Engineer — Geothermal Distributed Systems

Stanford Climate Ventures; Salt Lake City, Northern (UT, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

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.