Senior Data Engineer M/F (CDI)

Passionate about Tech, AI and Climate action? Join Kayrros, as a SENIOR DATA ENGINEER  M/F (CDI)

Founded in 2016, Kayrros is a global climate technology company and a world leader in environmental intelligence. Kayrros use satellite imagery, AI, and geo-analytics to help governments, investors and businesses understand the risks posed by the changing climate and energy landscapes and make more informed decisions.

Kayrros has recently been named one of the world’s 100 Most Influential Companies by TIME, included in Fortune's annual Change the World and is a winner of the FT Tech Champions 2022.

Kayrros has offices in Paris, Houston, New York, London, Bangalore and Singapore. For more information visit www.kayrros.com

Kayrros is building a team of talented people to positively disrupt the world’s climate governance and reshape the future of energy and the environment.

Join us to make a difference!

We are currently recruiting for our Paris office, a Senior Data Engineer M/F (CDI)

The Team

The Engineering Team is in charge of developing Kayrros’ key software components for remote sensing data processing as well as elaborating and running the pipelines that power Kayrros products.

The team has a specific focus on Earth observation data (optical, sar, lidar) and geolocation data.

What you will do

As a Data Engineer, you will:

• Work with remote sensing, geospatial and machine learning engineers to integrate and scale their algorithms,

• Design, implement and operate large-scale imagery and data pipeline on Kubernetes,

• Develop internal shared libraries to ease the creation and maintenance of data pipelines,

• Perform solution trade-off w.r.t maintenance, cost, scalability and robustness.

You will have a transverse role in the development of Kayrros technologies, from domain specific algorithm design to production deployment and operations.

You will work with the full range of data sources used at Kayrros (optical, SAR, hyper-spectral).

As an example, the Team has already developed deforestation monitoring pipelines, methane detection pipelines and many others!

Requirements

Ideal candidate

• At least 5 years experience in Data or Software Engineering.

• Experienced Python engineer (pytest, numpy, typing, etc.).

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.

• Knowledge of at least one public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and its managed services (S3, SQS, Lambdas, etc.).

• Knowledge in PostgreSQL and schema design.

• Knowledge of one popular workflow scheduler and orchestrator (Argo, Airflow, etc.).

• Can communicate clearly in English

Appreciated skills

• Already developed image processing pipelines.

• Familiar with the geospatial open source ecosystem (GDAL, rasterio, proj, etc.).

• Familiar with new data formats (geoparquet, cloud optmized geotiff, etc.).

• Familiar with cloud architecture (resilience, error management, etc.).

Why joining Kayrros?

• We are a young tech company and are extremely passionate about what we do.

• We are located in the WeWork building on Rue la Fayette, 75009.

• You will work with an international team and practice your English (or Chinese, German, Swedish, Portuguese...) on a day to day basis.

• We are creating products to make better decisions for the environment and climate.

At Kayrros, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We believe in equal opportunities for all applicants, regardless of gender. We actively promote gender equality in all aspects of our recruitment process and encourage applications from individuals of all genders. If you don't meet all the listed skills or qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.