Data Engineer F/H

Passionate about Climate, Energy and AI? Join Kayrros, as a Golang Software Engineer F/H

Kayrros is a leading environmental intelligence company at the forefront of climate action that uses AI, satellite imaging, geolocation data and other sources of information to accomplish three main missions: reduce greenhouse gas emissions; protect people, assets and ecosystems from climate risks (flooding, wildfires); and accelerate the energy transition.

Our team of experts and tech wizards is working to bring near-realtime transparency to energy and the environment, from crude oil inventories and solar energy to methane emissions, wildfire risks and afforestation. In just six years, the Kayrros team has grown to 150 experts in data science, mathematics and energy, representing over 20 nationalities and 10 spoken languages. The team works from six offices across three continents: our Paris headquarters, New York, Houston, London, Singapore and Bangalore. Our ~100+ clients including a wide range of stakeholders including government regulators and policymakers, international organizations, energy companies, asset managers, insurance companies, lending banks, trading companies and civil society.

Just in the last few months, Kayrros was recognized as a member of French Tech 2030, crowned by TIME magazine as one of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies in the world, by the Financial Times as a Tech Champion and by Fast Company as one of the five Most Innovative Companies in energy and the environment. Kayrros is the main data supplier to the UN Environmental Program’s International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) and was acknowledged in the latest UNEP Global Methane Assessment report.

Kayrros is expanding its team of talented people dedicated to positively disrupting the world’s biggest industries and shaping the future of energy and the environment.

Join us to make a difference!

We are currently recruiting for our Paris Office,

A Data Engineer F/H

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!

Ideal candidate

●        At least 3 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.