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Senior Geospatial Data Engineer

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As a Senior Geospatial Data Engineer, you will work on ingesting satellite imagery and geospatial data, optimizing data processes, building data pipelines, and mentoring junior engineers. You'll play a lead role in initiatives to enhance data processing capabilities while working collaboratively across teams.
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The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

The grid is the backbone of life as we know it. It powers hospitals, keeps food fresh, and ensures communities stay connected. But extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing wildfire risks are putting this critical system under pressure. All of this combined makes the electric utility industry the greatest opportunity for tackling climate change. 

One of the leading causes of catastrophic wildfires and power outages? Trees and brush coming into contact with power lines. 

That’s where we help. At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. By giving utilities critical analysis on those risks, we’re helping prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.

Our team spans the Americas and Europe, and we work with utility partners across the Americas and beyond. We’re outdoor enthusiasts, musicians, artists, athletes, parents, and adventurers—15 nationalities strong and growing. What unites us is a passion for solving complex problems, a commitment to climate action, and the belief that technology should be a force for good.

Join us to help us build a more resilient world together.

The role

You will work within the Data Ingestion team which is responsible for ingesting satellite imagery together with other kinds of geospatial data from sources external to the company, and making this data available to other teams.
You will contribute by building and maintaining data pipelines, creating new processes to efficiently scale our data processing capabilities, and mentoring more junior engineers. You will collaborate heavily with the other geospatial data engineers in the team and people all across the organization.

What you will do 

Over the next 6-12 months you will be working on: 

  • Optimizing existing processes and creating new systems.
  • Reduce the amount of manual work required to process different types of geospatial data.
  • Performance & Scalability: ensure that our processes can handle 3x YoY growth 

You will be an influential member of the team taking the lead on and contributing to key initiatives. Additionally you will coach and mentor other engineers on the team.

About You  

  • Passionate about climate
  • Approximately 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering. 
  • Product minded and able to demonstrate significant impact you have had on a business through the application of technology
  • Proven experience of geospatial data engineering across the following (or similar) technologies: Python, GDAL/OGR, Data pipelines, PostGIS DB, QGIS).
  • Comfortable working in a build it, run it environment (GCP, cloud run, grafana, k8s) - or similar.
  • Ability to design and implement scalable and resilient systems.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
  • Passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies and industry trends.
  • You are based in GMT/ CET time zone

If you don’t meet all of the above yet feel you have lots to offer, please apply anyway. 

What you get 

  • To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
  • Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
  • Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
  • To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
  • Equity and a competitive salary.

About our team 

We are a group of 64 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from nine different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, Spain, France, Sweden and Canada. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.

Diversity & Inclusion

We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.

We’re always looking to diversify our team further, but we’re proud of the fact that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 46% of the overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Estonian, Danish and Korean.

Our valuesTackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.

We act with urgency.

Our curiosity fuels our growth.

We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.

We’re rooted in diversity.

Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.

We care for each other.

We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.

Trust is fundamental.

We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.


Top Skills

Python

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