Platform Engineer, Vortexa

Salary not provided

Offers Stock Options

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Airflow

Terraform

Athena

Parquet

Golang

Mid and Senior level

Austin

Real-time energy cargo tracking

Job no longer available

Real-time energy cargo tracking

101-200 employees

B2BEnergyBig dataAnalyticsMachine LearningSaaS

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

Offers Stock Options

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Airflow

Terraform

Athena

Parquet

Golang

Mid and Senior level

Austin

101-200 employees

B2BEnergyBig dataAnalyticsMachine LearningSaaS

Company mission

Vortexa is a fast-growing international technology business founded to solve the immense information gap that exists in the energy industry. By using massive amounts of new satellite data and pioneering work in artificial intelligence, Vortexa creates an unprecedented view on the global seaborne energy flows in real-time, bringing transparency and efficiency to the energy markets and society as a whole.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Determined to create infrastructure that gets out of the way with a great developer experience
Excellent at troubleshooting unfamiliar code
Striving to be more skilled than Google with Kubernetes
An AWS power user and evangelist
Familiar with Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams – deployment, monitoring, resiliency, fault-tolerance, cluster planning and operations, applications debugging
Experienced with ElasticSearch operations and usage
Fluent in Terraform, and Go
Familiar with cloud-native application design and deployment
Not afraid of challenges and infrastructure troubleshooting
A “can-do” person – “I’ve done my bit” has no place at Vortexa

Desirable

Are familiar with Airflow or other workflow orchestration tools
Understand data lakes like Parquet, Orc, Athena

What the job involves

The Data Services Team is responsible for the developer platform, and the impressive Amazon AWS estate Vortexa uses to achieve its purpose
This includes two major areas of concern: infrastructure availability, security and costs, as well as developer experience
We use a wide variety of technologies like Kubernetes, Kubevela, Golang, Kafka, Opensearch, Airflow, Athena, and others
You will be a key member of the small, globally distributed team, instrumental in assessing current technologies, delivering the best possible engineering experience with the shortest development iterations, helping crystallise, converge and standardise technology stacks and implementing the infrastructure roadmap, ensuring 100% uptime, availability, and fault-tolerance of every component of the platform, while optimising AWS costs
You will provide your customers such as data analysts, data scientists, and other engineers with a delightful developer experience tooling boosting their productivity, and allowing them to concentrate on business logic
You will codify and automate any operational knowledge gathered so that R&D can focus purely on creating value for our customers

Our take

Vortexa provides market-leading real-time data and advanced analytics for energy and shipping markets. With an accurate and complete picture of waterborne flows and freight dynamics, Vortexa covers crude oil, refined products, LPG and LNG, across all vessel classes. The company sits at the confluence where hard data meets deep tech and machine learning, bringing together all the physical aspects of the tanker shipping universe.

With $1.8T of trades on water per year, the physical energy market is still one of the most opaque markets in existence today. Data is fragmented and incomplete, leading businesses to make high-stake decisions in the dark.

Vortexa’s forward view of tonnage supply up to 35 days ahead and real-time utilisation data at high frequency and granularity, help market participants to make well-informed, high-stakes chartering and positioning decisions quickly and confidently. In 2023, venture capital from Communitas further consolidated Vortexa's strength in the market. The company’s clients include oil supermajors, commodities trading houses, investment banks, brokers, and ship owners, spanning globally.

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Insights

Top investors

16% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (5)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jan 2024

$34m

SERIES C

Feb 2021

$19m

SERIES B

Total funding: $58.2m

Company benefits

A flexible working policy - accommodating both remote and home working, with regular staff events
Workplace Pension Scheme via The People's Pension
Private Health Insurance offered via Vitality to help you look after your physical health
Global Volunteering Policy to help you 'do good' and feel better

Company values

Pioneering spirit
Excellence focused
Fast moving
Driven mindset
Building together

Company HQ

City of London, London, UK

Articles

Vortexa breathes new life into the freight market with game changing pricing data

London-based Vortexa raises €15.8M; here’s how it helps energy trading, shipping companies to identify, seize opportunities

Vortexa Launches Freight Pricing Analytics Following Its Landmark Data Partnership With The Baltic Exchange

New York venture capital firm buys stake in Vortexa

Heavyweight investors buy into Vortexa

Jacques Gabillon, Former Global Head of Commodities at Goldman Sachs, Is Vortexa’s New Chairman

Leadership

Fabio Kuhn

(Founder & CEO)

Former Head of BP’s global front-office trading technology programme and innovation group. Has held technology and analytical leadership roles at Uniper, was a Quant Trader in a Statistical Arbitrage hedge fund and worked at the NASA Ames Research Centre.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Vortexa

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