As a Staff Software Engineer on Indigo's Remote Sensing Team, you will play a key role in designing and building efficient, scalable, and performant frameworks in support of Indigo’s remote sensing efforts. Your expertise in software development will help us design and scale systems to see grower management practices and agricultural patterns from space and to use those insights to help growers profitably and sustainably feed the planet. 

You will be joining a small, cross-functional team of data scientists and engineers, within which you will own much of the technical decision-making. This team is responsible for generating products and services involving development and application of machine learning models to time series of geospatial data from satellite remote sensing and other sources in support of agronomic insights and carbon modeling by stakeholders across the company. 

The team will look to you for guidance on architectural design, pipeline development, and deployment, as we strive to bring remote-sensing-based insights and products to multiple internal and external customers. You will represent our team in a cross-squad guild of other geospatial engineers, where you will work to align on common systems and patterns.

Responsibilities:

• Work in a cross-functional group of data scientists and engineers to build geospatial products and services.
• Collaborate with product managers and data scientists to design systems that leverage science to answer difficult questions.
• Design and own high quality production systems from initial planning stages to operational support.
• Mentor other team members on best engineering practices, including software design, code review, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Understand and maintain existing systems while working to provide better ones.
• Learn from and educate others to improve yourself and the project.

Competencies:

• You possess strong and proven computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, databases, and data management.
• You understand how to build high-throughput APIs and data processing pipelines.
• You have a drive for software engineering excellence.
• You have a passion for helping others and sharing your knowledge.
• You are resourceful and can troubleshoot your way through problems.
• You thrive in a fast paced, agile development environment.
• You are a strong communicator, can lead technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team.
• You strive to create fast, reliable, testable, and documented code that others can understand. 
• You are empathetic, resilient and respectful in dealings with others.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or related role (Python strongly preferred)
• 2+ years experience deploying high quality services on AWS or other cloud providers
• Experience with CI/CD and automated testing
• Experience with operational systems and devops
• Experience with computer vision/ML/AI workflows
• Experience designing and building data pipelines at scale using distributed architectures
• Experience working with large, complex datasets

Nice to Have:

• Experience working with geospatial data and operations
• Experience with time series data storage and access patterns
• Experience with image processing workflows
• Proficiency with relational/spatial databases, e.g., Postgres/PostGIS, Snowflake

Benefits:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• Generous time off
• Parental leave
• A remote-first organization with flexible work hours
• Catered Lunches
• Commuter benefits
• 401(k) plan