Senior Software Engineer, IR Data Products
Core
Build, harden, and operate production pipelines and services that process and serve infrared (IR) space mission data for wildfire operators, the scientific community, and government customers.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (IR Data Products)
Builds
Production data pipelines, geospatial data hosting/serving services, and internal visualization tools for Earth observation data.
Domain
Aerospace / Remote Sensing / Geospatial Data
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, AWS, Workflow Orchestrators (Airflow/Flyte/Prefect), Geospatial libraries (GDAL/rasterio/PROJ), Observability (logging/metrics/alerts), CI/CD, Unit/Integration Testing
Preferred skills
STAC catalogs, xarray/Zarr/NetCDF, Satellite ground-segment concepts, Terraform/IaC, Scientific code productionization
Technologies
Python, AWS, Flyte, Airflow, GDAL, rasterio, GeoTIFF, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF, NetCDF, Zarr, Grafana, Prometheus, Terraform
Responsibilities
Design and operate high-reliability data pipelines for IR imagery and derived products; Optimize infrastructure and algorithms to minimize end-to-end latency; Build geospatial data discovery and serving APIs; Develop internal data-visualization and inspection tools; Maintain testing and release infrastructure; Partner with data scientists to productionize research code; Build end-to-end observability for the data pipeline.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
