Software Engineer, Earthmover

Platform

$150-200k

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Rust

Next.js

FastAPI

Pulumi

Mid and Senior level

New York

Remote from US

More information about location

Cloud-based platform for scientific data teams

Job no longer available

Cloud-based platform for scientific data teams

1-20 employees

B2BSaaSData AnalysisCloud Computing

Job no longer available

$150-200k

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Rust

Next.js

FastAPI

Pulumi

Mid and Senior level

New York

Remote from US

More information about location

1-20 employees

B2BSaaSData AnalysisCloud Computing

Company mission

To empower our customers to use scientific data to address our planet’s most urgent challenges.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Have experience designing and building high quality APIs
Have experience building control layers, user permission systems, or access control tools
Are product minded, and excited to work directly with customers & scientists to shape our product to solve their problems
Would enjoy partnering with other parts of the stack to rapidly iterate on new product features, in particular our web and client libraries
Have at least 5 years experience as a software engineer working on backend systems. Our stack is written in Python/Rust, experience with any typed backend language is valuable
Have a genuine enthusiasm for this job description, even if you don’t yet have experience with all of the listed responsibilities. We have a top class team and are open to helping the right candidate grow into these responsibilities over time

What the job involves

Expose APIs on top of our data layer that help us build great user experiences and data products for customers
Own our API control layer, and continue to expand access control features for organizations, users, and API keys
Work on core parts of our API performance and quality, bringing best practices around things like stability, monitoring, versioning, and client integrations
Improve overall query performance and consistency wherever it’s needed in our API or database layer

Application process

Initial phone screen
Technical interview 1
Technical interview 2
Culture interview 1
Culture interview 2

Our take

In a world where scientific breakthroughs hold the key to addressing some of humanity's most pressing challenges, Earthmover emerges as a beacon of innovation.

Enter Arraylake, Earthmover's brainchild, poised to revolutionize how scientists interact with data in the cloud. Arraylake confronts the limitations of existing platforms by offering a purpose-built data lake centred around multidimensional arrays. By leveraging the open standard Zarr as its core data model, Arraylake allows scientific teams to navigate, explore, and collaborate on data with ease and efficiency.

With a steadfast commitment to empowering scientific teams across industries, Arraylake embarks on its private beta journey and charts a course towards democratizing access to cutting-edge data analytics tools, unlocking new frontiers for scientific exploration, and ultimately, propelling humanity towards a brighter, more sustainable future.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Sep 2025

$7.2m

SEED

Sep 2023

$6.2m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $15.1m

Company benefits

Health insurance through UnitedHealthcare - up to 99% of premium covered for employee under basic plan
20 days of PTO annually with a quarterly time off minimum
10 personal days annually
7 paid company holidays
12 weeks of paid family leave
Quarterly company off-sites

Company HQ

Civic Center, New York, NY

Leadership

Ryan Abernathey

(CEO)

Currently an Associate Professor at Columbia University. Graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a PhD in Climate Physics before receiving a Postdoctoral Scholar from MIT and Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Joe Hamman

(CTO)

Graduated from the University of Washington with a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering. They then served as a Project Scientist at NCAR and as a Technical Director at CarbonPlan.

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