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Sr. Software Engineer - Core Modules

Engineering

Full-time

Description

Orbital Insight analyzes billions of geospatial data points to provide valuable insights and empower users to query the world. We ingest different kinds of geospatial data and produce observational truth. Pixels and pings are fed into deep learning models to produce numbers. Numbers are modeled, aggregated, and transformed into meaningful insights. This entire pipeline is formulated, created, monitored, and managed by you. Experience working at scale is pretty darned important.

Our team develops cutting-edge technology that has prevented illegal deforestation, aided disaster relief, and even saved lives. Are you up for the challenge?

Who you are

  • You have deep experience using Python and various open source packages to build serious cloud computing pipelines
  • You are curious, inquisitive, and always striving to learn
  • You are proactive, with a bias for action, willing to jump into the fray to solve issues
  • You have a passion for excellence, and a champion for good code quality
  • You are a team player, and committed to working in and fostering a supportive, collaborative environment

    • Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data processing pipelines to handle large amounts of geospatial data; write code for automating complex geospatial requests
  • Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems that power Orbital Insight’s Apps and various end customer use cases
  • Design, code, test, deploy, maintain and own scalable microservice(s)
  • Mentor and guide junior engineers, including code and design reviews
  • Work together with geographically dispersed cross-functional teams

    • Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
  • 5+  total years of industry experience as a Software engineer
  • 4+ years experience with Python or other similar language
  • 3+ years experience working on large scale, production systems
  • 3+ years experience working with microservices or other service based architectures
  • Experience working on building core modules and infrastructure to be used across services is a major plus
  • Knowledge and experience with Spark, Argo Workflows, Redis, Kubernetes and Docker is a major plus

    • Additional Information

    Orbital Insight is a fast growing provider of geospatial data and geo­-analytic services to commercial, nonprofit and public sector clients across the globe. Leveraging advancements in computer vision and cloud computing, Orbital Insight is turning millions of images into a big picture understanding of the world that is quantitatively grounded in observation, creating unprecedented transparency, and empowering global decision makers with new sources of objective, quantified socio­-economic insights.

    We are backed by marquee investors such as Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital, In­-Q­- Tel and Bloomberg Beta, Orbital Insight is rapidly expanding its commercial and public sector capabilities. Come join us if you are unafraid to try new approaches and relentlessly seek to push the state of the art, taking projects all the way from prototype to production-ready.

    At Orbital Insight, we believe that a diverse workforce that reflects the diversity of our planet is the way to achieve our mission: to understand what is happening on and to the Earth.  Orbital Insight is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. We do not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes and will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Orbital Insight.
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