Software Engineer, Kairos Aerospace
Data Stores, Senior to Staff Level
$120.6-233k
+ Bonus + Equity
Identifier of oilfield methane leaks and emissions
Open for applications
Identifier of oilfield methane leaks and emissions
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$120.6-233k
+ Bonus + Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To improve operational excellence for the oil industry with cost-effective, efficient methane reductions.
Role
Who you are
- A detailed understanding of how modern SQL and NoSQL databases work and their tradeoffs, including query execution, storage, and communication
- A software development background, ideally in Python
- Knowledge of database security best practices
- Experience analyzing and optimizing database schemas, queries, and supporting platforms
- Experience with PostgreSQL PostGIS queries and schemas
- Experience working with SQL, ORMs, and other means of database access
- Experience operating scalable, reliable database management systems in the cloud
- Ability to offer other developers expert consultations on database issues as well as directly address database issues yourself
- The ability to learn quickly in a self-guided manner - much of what we do is solving new problems by integrating one or more pieces of new technology
- A desire to solve real-world problems over working on technical problems in isolation - none of our work fits in neat boxes. Instead, we have a team that is focused on the impact our work can have on the future of life on the planet and prioritizes real-world progress over problem-focus purity
- A belief in modern development practices - we do things like code reviews, unit testing, minimal-viable products, and fast development iteration. We eschew the zealous practice of any development-process religion, but we do pick and choose techniques that help us write better software
Desirable
- Experience defining database best practices and teaching classes on them
- Experience building internal user-facing applications
- Detailed domain knowledge in geospatial analysis
- Experience working in a resource-constrained startup environment
- Complementary experience such as: site reliability engineering, systems administration, technical consulting, technical instruction
- Familiarity with tools we commonly use, such as: Bazel, Rancher/Docker, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, CircleCI, NumPy, Jupyter notebooks
What the job involves
- Ensure our large PostgreSQL/PostGIS database cluster is operating reliably and efficiently
- Ensure application developers and data analysts are well prepared to make effective use of our databases and data stores
- Analyze and optimize our data access patterns and storage
- Effectively represent the systems perspective in collaborations on managing our data lifecycle
- Design/Architect new datastore and analytics solutions, opening up new avenues of data analysis potential
Our take
Insight M provides large-scale, aerial monitoring of methane emissions to oil and gas operators. It uses methane detection algorithms and proprietary sensor hardware to identify material methane leaks before providing insights to its clients.
The company has had an impressive impact on the oil and gas industry’s emissions management strategies, having enabled its clients to eliminate over 14B cubic feet of methane emissions, which is akin to removing over 1.5M vehicles from the road. This adds up to around $500 million in savings.
Insight M has become the market leader, a position consolidated after its 2021 funding round. Its 2024 funding round is being invested into expanding its commercial teams and international operations, as well as developing new instruments and software that will increase sensitivity and improve the quality of the company’s data for customers. 2025 saw the company's methane detection gain EPA approval, cementing its position as a go-to carbon monitor.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jun 2025
$30m
LATE VC
Feb 2024
$52m
SERIES D
Total funding: $130.4m
Company benefits
- We provide health, dental, and vision insurance, including subsidized coverage for dependents. Our 401K plan provides a 50% employer match on employee contributions up to 8%
- We think death-march hours are a bad way to run a company. We expect something approximating a 40-hour workweek, but mostly we just care that your work gets done. No, really. (Full disclosure: we occasionally put in some extra hours during crunch periods, but that is the exception, not the norm)
- We do not track vacation time, nor do we have set hours to be in the office. Instead, we encourage taking real vacations, mental health days, leaving early to pick up the kids, working from home, time-shifting commutes, staying home when you're sick, ducking out to the gym - we believe work time should be flexible
Company HQ
Sunnyvale, CA
Leadership
David Bercovich
(CEO)Previously COO at Oomnitza and was a VP Business Development & Marketing at Thimble.
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