Data Pipeline Engineer, Near Space Labs
$120-220k
+ Opportunity for Equity
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Aerial imagery and earth observation
Posted today
Aerial imagery and earth observation
21-100 employees
Posted today
$120-220k
+ Opportunity for Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Near Space Labs' mission is to democratize high-quality geospatial intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Proficient in Python: 5+ years of experience developing robust data pipelines and applications, with a strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and geospatial data
- Data Pipeline Expertise: Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines using distributed processing frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Spark, etc)
- Containerization and Kubernetes: Demonstrated ability to interact and manage containerized data applications using Docker and Kubernetes
- Cloud Storage and Data Warehousing: Experience working with cloud-based storage solutions (e.g., AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage) and data warehousing technologies
- Understanding of distributed systems: Knowledge of how distributed systems work and the challenges that they present
- Problem-Solving and Troubleshooting: Strong ability to diagnose and resolve complex data infrastructure and pipeline issues
- Self-Starter and Collaborative: Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, managing projects and deliverables effectively
What the job involves
- We seek a proactive Data Engineer to drive the evolution of our petabyte-scale geospatial imagery pipeline.
- This role will be instrumental in ensuring the seamless flow of data, collaborating closely with data and software engineers
- You will provide ongoing support by actively monitoring and troubleshooting data pipeline performance and reliability.
- Your contributions will directly impact our ability to deliver high-quality imagery to customers with optimal speed and reliability
- Build and maintain our proprietary data pipeline for batch geospatial data processing
- Monitor and support data pipeline performance and reliability
- Develop new data processing tasks to support evolving data requirements
- Design and implement data storage solutions using cloud-based storage services
- Develop and optimize data workflows using distributed systems
- Rapid generation of functional prototypes
Our take
Near Space Labs provides customers with high-res imagery of the earth. The twist is, this isn’t satellite imagery, but imagery collected by a zero-emission fleet of wind-powered weather balloons, each one able to capture up to 1,000 square kilometres of imagery on each flight. This makes for an eco-friendly, low-cost alternative to satellite imagery and results in images up to 50 times clearer than those collected by satellite.
Over 500 flights were booked by customers over 2022 alone. Near Space’s cameras are already unlocking crucial intelligence for clients as diverse as local councils, wildlife trackers, and insurance companies.
It’s a remarkable development, unlocking the power of geospatial data for customers who would never have depended on it before, and it therefore cracks open a whole new market in which Near Space is an uncontested player.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2021
$13m
SERIES A
Total funding: $13m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 25 days paid time off
- Equity
- Annual team offsites
- Visit our New York & Barcelona offices
- Learning & development reimbursement
- Opportunity to attend a balloon launch
Company HQ
Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY
Articles
Leadership
Rema Matevosyan
(CEO)Previously a software developer with InnoRise, then at the Institute for System Programming of Russian Academy of Sciences. Subsequently held a junior research fellowship at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.
Ignasi Lluch
(CTO)Worked on the Galileo Evolutions Team at the European Space Agency, and then as a Space Systems Engineering Researcher at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.
Albert Caubert
(Chief Engineer)Previously an engineer at the Centre National d'Études Spatiales, then did his PhD as a Marie Curie Researcher at the University of Strathclyde. Subsequently held an AOCS engineering role at OHB SE.
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