What the job involves

• As a Data Engineer, you’ll be at the core of how we turn raw Earth Observation data into scalable, reliable and high-quality data products.
• You’ll design and build the pipelines and systems that power our data platform, ensuring customers across the world can access and act on satellite data with confidence
• Developing and maintaining data ingestion and processing pipelines for satellite and Earth Observation data
• Designing and implementing scalable, reliable processing systems to support payload data processing and quality control
• Establishing and enforcing data and metadata standards to ensure consistency, usability and quality across datasets
• Balancing customer needs with technical architecture, delivering solutions aligned with platform and operational constraints
• Proposing and implementing improvements to data architecture, scalability and performance
• Integrating new data processing techniques and data types into existing workflows
• Translating scientific or analytical code into efficient, production-ready implementations
• Maintaining and evolving complex data processing systems with monitoring, reliability and continuous improvement in mind
• Supporting EO data quality and performance through validation, control and optimisation mechanisms

Benefits

• Open Cosmonaut Culture: Aim high go beyond is the OC mantra - our teams support each other pushing science to the limits, making the impossible, possible
• We're flexible!: Prefer to mostly WFH? That's fine! Hybrid? Great! Need to take 30 mins at 3pm to get the kids from school? Go ahead! We're more interested in your contributions than when and where you're working
• Our facilities: Working on our hardware? Look no further than our state of the art lab. Prefer to be in an office sometimes? All the time? Our office has everything you need for productive working, including drinks and snacks to keep you fuelled through the day
• Enhanced parental leave: Adding to your family is stressful enough without worrying about pay during those precious first few weeks and months. The UK team enjoy enhanced pay during parts of their statutory maternity, paternity or adoption leave
• Time off: Taking time off is important for our mental health - all our Open Cosmonauts have 25 days holiday in addition to national holidays
• Core Benefits: UK team members can enjoy Medicash, income protection and death in service benefits. Spain team members can enjoy access to a tax saving platform Cobee
• Career development: Having a successful team makes a successful company. We're at the forefront of technology so learning and building an enabling career for you is central to everyone's success
• Team days and social events: Getting to see our colleagues in person, especially when we work in different countries, is so important. We hold monthly team days, quarterly all company catch ups, summer parties and Christmas celebrations