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Software Engineer

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Location not specified
Full Time
Posted November 13, 2025
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Job Description

This role involves building and maintaining scalable, customer-facing APIs and services for accessing satellite imagery data, working with technologies like Go, Python, and cloud platforms, while collaborating across distributed teams to deliver high-quality geospatial data products.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain customer-facing APIs and internal platform components using Go, Python, Postgres PostGIS, and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform.
  • Develop scalable, resilient, and observable distributed large-scale services with a focus on customer experience.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align product engineering goals and ensure high-quality, maintainable, and well-documented code.
  • Own the operation of APIs and services by implementing Site Reliability Engineering practices, including performance measurement, load testing, alerting, and incident response.
  • Participate in code reviews to uphold high code quality standards.

Requirements

  • Four years of experience in software development within a production environment working preferably with Python or Golang.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Geosciences, or a similar technical field.
  • Solid understanding of software engineering best practices and development methodologies.
  • Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills, including written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to write engineering design proposals and solicit feedback to drive collaborative decisions.
  • Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) and distributed event-driven architecture.
  • Ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently, navigate uncertain and sometimes ambiguous problem spaces, and take calculated risks.
  • Experience working with diverse data storage systems such as relational databases, document stores, and key-value stores.
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
  • Experience with Git, large codebases, reviewing merge requests, and running complex CI/CD pipelines.
  • Comfortable working with Docker containers.
  • Ability to own the operation of APIs and services by embracing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) culture, including measuring performance, load testing, creating and fine-tuning alerts, dashboards, runbooks, and responding to incidents.
  • Willingness to participate in rapid response on-call rotation in support of external and internal services.

Benefits & Perks

Extended Health and Dental Coverage
Health Spending Account
RRSP with company contribution
Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and company-wide days off
Employee Wellness Program
Home Office Reimbursement
Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
Quality of Life Stipend
Equity
Volunteering Paid Time Off

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