Backend / Data Platform Engineer
Foundational, London
The role
This is a future role. We're building a shortlist now and will contact you when it opens.
What you will do
- Build ingest pipelines from our stations and from third-party data sources
- Design data models and storage for high-volume, time-series scientific data
- Build and maintain customer APIs and data delivery in standard formats
- Make pipelines reliable, observable and secure, including for customers with strict data-handling requirements
- Work closely with front-end, geodesy and orbit determination engineers
What you need
- Extensive experience building backend systems in production
- Strong Python (or Go or Rust) and SQL
- Experience with data pipelines, message queues and time-series storage
- Cloud infrastructure and containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Care for testing, security and documentation