Staff Platform Engineer

About Neural Earth

Neural Earth brings clarity to risk, helping decision makers act with confidence and enact resilient business critical decisions. Today’s environmental, economic, and infrastructure challenges are deeply interconnected yet the information required to understand these relationships are scattered across siloed and aging systems. As risk evolves, organizations go extinct when reliant on incomplete or outdated information. Neural Earth unifies our planet's data and deploys a single AI powered system, enabling revenue-driving decisions in seconds, not weeks.

About the position

The Staff Platform Engineer will be the technical backbone of Neural’s geospatial infrastructure, responsible for designing, building, and scaling the cloud-native platform that powers all of our AI and geospatial products. You will own the developer experience for internal engineering teams, architect CI/CD pipelines, manage container orchestration, and ensure our systems are reliable, observable, and performant at scale. This role bridges the gap between data engineering, DevOps, and software architecture, with a deep emphasis on geospatial workloads.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience building and operating production infrastructure for data-intensive applications, particularly those involving large-scale raster, vector, and time-series geospatial datasets. You will partner closely with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams to ensure that models and applications can be deployed, monitored, and iterated upon rapidly.

This is a full-time, remote position.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) optimized for geospatial and AI/ML workloads, including large raster processing and vector tile serving.
  • Own and evolve the internal developer platform, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi), and containerized deployment workflows (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
  • Architect and maintain data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and serving geospatial data at scale, integrating with tools like PostGIS, GeoServer, GDAL, and cloud-native object storage.
  • Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting across all production services using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent.
  • Establish and enforce security best practices, including SOC2 compliance, secret management, network isolation, and IAM policies.
  • Collaborate with AI/ML and data science teams to build scalable inference services, model registries, and experiment tracking infrastructure.
  • Reduce cognitive load for feature squads by providing self-service tooling, documentation, and platform abstractions.
  • Define and implement SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for platform reliability and performance.
  • Lead architectural decisions and provide technical mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers.
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to continuously improve platform capabilities and developer productivity.
  • Publish internal documentation, runbooks, and contribute to engineering knowledge sharing.

Qualification

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.
  • Deep expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
  • Strong proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ECS/EKS).
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation).
  • Proficiency in at least one systems-level or scripting language (Python, Go, Bash, Rust).
  • Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
  • Solid understanding of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments.
  • Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred

  • Experience with geospatial infrastructure: tile servers, raster processing pipelines, PostGIS, GeoServer, STAC catalogs.
  • Familiarity with ML infrastructure: model serving (TorchServe, Triton, SageMaker), experiment tracking (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores.
  • Experience with big data processing frameworks (Apache Spark, Apache Sedona, Dask).
  • Knowledge of geospatial data formats (GeoTIFF, COG, GeoParquet, Arrow, FlatGeobuf).
  • Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms (Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis).
  • Open-source contributions or active participation in infrastructure/geospatial communities.

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