Remote Senior Data Engineer, Data Ingestion

Description:

• Overstory is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for the Data Ingestion team to focus on ingesting satellite imagery and other geospatial data from external sources.
• The role involves building and maintaining data pipelines, creating new processes to efficiently scale data processing and modeling capabilities, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Responsibilities include optimizing existing processes, creating new systems, and reducing manual work required to process various types of geospatial data.
• The engineer will ensure that processes can handle 3x year-over-year growth and will take the lead on key initiatives while coaching other team members.

Requirements:

• Candidates should be passionate about climate and have approximately 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering.
• A product-minded approach with the ability to demonstrate significant impact through technology application is required.
• Proven experience in data engineering with technologies such as Python and data pipelines is necessary.
• Comfort in a build it, run it environment (GCP, cloud run, grafana, k8s) or similar is essential.
• The ability to design and implement scalable and resilient systems is required.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment are necessary.
• A passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies and industry trends is important.
• Candidates must be based in the GMT, CET, or EST time zone.
• Nice to have: Proven experience in geospatial data engineering with technologies like GDAL/OGR, PostGIS DB, and QGIS.

Benefits:

• Employees will be part of mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects natural resources, and helps address the climate crisis.
• A flexible working environment with autonomy is offered, allowing work days to be built around personal lives.
• Additional benefits include a remote working budget, an educational budget, and time to develop new skills.
• Team members will be surrounded by a vibrant, smart team that values openness, tolerance, and respect.
• The position includes equity and a competitive salary.