Senior Data Engineer

The role

The Senior Data Engineer will assist in the ingestion of climate risk and ancillary data, develop data pipelines, and query geospatial databases. They will provide technical support in processing and interpreting geospatial observations and modeling data.

What you will do

• Provide technical support in the processing, analysis, and interpretation of geospatial observations and modeling data.
• Develop and implement processes for processing large volumes of hazard prediction data.
• Plan, execute and workflows on local and cloud-based environments, using technologies such as GDAL, PostgreSQL, Python, Spark
• Analyze raster and vector data at scale to improve model accuracy and identify quality control issues.
• Perform statistical analysis to validate hazard model predictions and assess model uncertainties.
• Design and implement quality assurance checks on the climate risk data and derived statistics
• Assist in resolution of customer support issues through quality control checks and explanation of the models and risk statistics

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Data or Climate Science, or a related field
• 5+ years of professional experience
• Experience with the design and use of databases, such as PostgreSQL
• Proficiency with Python
• Experience with writing software to efficiently process and analyze with geospatial data using open source tools
• Strong understanding of probability and statistics as applied to spatial data
• Expertise using scripted languages to build data pipelines on both local and cloud-based systems
• Proficiency with source control platforms such as Git
• A science-based approach with a high degree of concern for reliability, accuracy and reproducibility
• Experience in GIS and/or geospatial statistical analysis

Nice to have

• Proficiency with SQL queries to efficiently and reproducibly analyze complex datasets
• experience in DBT and Spark
• Previous experience in the physical sciences
• Masters Degree

Benefits

• Ownership interest in the company via Employee Stock Option Plan
• 15 vacation days
• 8 statutory company holidays
• 5 days for winter break office closure
• 10 sick days
• Healthcare monthly premium covered at 100% for employee or a significant contribution for family plans
• Vision and dental benefits with partial employee contribution
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Access to One Medical, Teledoc, HealthAdvocate, Kindbody, and Talkspace
• Company 401k program
• Commuter benefits
• Life Insurance

About the company

First Street is the standard for Climate Risk Financial Modeling. They translate climate risk into decision-useful financial outcomes for investors, businesses, communities, and property owners worldwide.