Senior Cloud Engineer
Remote- Munich, Bayern, Germany
Data Platform
Job description
About constellr
We are operating at the interface of climate tech, agriculture and space, combining engineering, Earth Observation, and agronomy to address one of the biggest challenges of our time: how to ensure global food security!
With offices in Brussels, Freiburg, Munich, and Toulouse, we are a diverse team, comprised of highly motivated and passionate professionals who share a common vision to revolutionise decision-making in tomorrow’s smart farming industry.
Our Mission
constellr is at the forefront of precise temperature monitoring from space. Our technology delivers the market's most accurate and dependable thermal data with our Land Surface Temperature model excelling in precisely measuring temperature for organizations that depend on highly accurate insights. Join us in advancing impactful initiatives, particularly in agriculture, where our expertise contributes to transformative projects in global food production.
The Role
To achieve our goals, we are building a state-of-the-art Data Platform, which transfers our satellite data to the cloud, where we process, enrich, and deliver analysis-ready geospatial data to internal and external customers.
As our senior cloud engineer, you will contribute to developing this Data Platform, focusing especially on operations. You will have a key role in designing and infrastructure using, while using modern technologies, including Python, S3, Docker, Terraform, Zarr, Cloud-Optimized GeoTiffs, STAC, PostGIS, and more. Your role will involve the following;
- Working closely with other cloud engineers in the infrastructure team and stakeholders, e.g., from the software, product, and image segment teams, to ensure their requirements are being met.
- Collaboratively designing and implementing the different components of a Cloud-Native Geospatial Data Platform to enable its acquisition, dissemination and intelligence abilities.
- Building and maintaining a state-of-the-art Cloud environment for all engineering sections of the company to provide the best tools and methodologies to all.
- Keeping up to date with and evaluating new technologies, frameworks and standards.
- Mentoring cloud engineers to help them reach their potential.
Location – Ideally you will be based in Germany or Belgium, our offices are Freiburg, Munich, Berlin or Brussels – this role is offered on a remote basis with some travel for team and project meetings.
Job requirements
About you
- Motivated, curious and inquisitive team player, challenging the status quo and bringing new ideas into action.
- Passionate about DevOps, infrastructure-as-a-code, CI/CD, TDD, and all tools that help deliver better products with less effort.
- A proven track record in building data platforms in fast-moving environments.
- Confident and experienced with Kubernetes, terraform,
- AWS (or alike), specifically – S3, EKS, EC2, IAM
- Experience with data engineering, data pipelines and data storage.
Nice to have
- EO sector and/or NewSpace startups
- Sysadmin, DevOps, and/or networking experience
- Join a fast-growing, diverse and motivated team with a strong drive for positive change
- Autonomy to set and deliver against your own goals, develop new skills and capabilities, and lead others to do the same.
- Directly influence your contribution to achieving several of the UN's sustainable development goals, including Zero Hunger, Clean Water, No Poverty and Climate Action
- Be part of a multi-disciplinary, and diverse team with a strong desire to change the world.
- Be a formative part of the team delivering the world’s first commercial infrared constellation into orbit, enabling an unprecedented understanding of our planet and its resources.
Our Benefits
- An attractive virtual shares package (Virtual Share Option Program)
- A company pension scheme (bAV) in cooperation with WWK Lebensversicherung (20% subsidy) for German employees
- Flexible working: we support remote or semi-remote working for many of our roles
- Work-life balance: we value everyone’s time and respect family or personal commitments. We support you to be as productive as you can in the time you have
- Lovely offices in Brussels situated between the attractive Etterbeek and Watermael districts; in Freiburg, southwest Germany, bordering the Black Forest, France and Switzerland; a brand-new office in central Munich, a stone’s throw from the beautiful German Alps and lakes and soon we are opening our office at the heart of Toulouse’s aerospace cluster and the thriving Occitania food and drink scene.
At constellr, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming workplace. We are an equal-opportunity employer and believe that diversity fuels innovation, creativity, and the ability to tackle complex challenges effectively. We encourage individuals from all walks of life to join us on our mission to reduce global food insecurity.
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