Orcrist Technologies GmbH

Pioneering Future Technologies with Advanced AI and Data Analytics

Geospatial Data Engineer

Data EngineerData EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 11-50Company SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

16 days ago

Salary

Not specified

5 yrs expEnglishCloudGrafanaKafkaPost GISPrometheusPython

Job Description

• Build and operate data pipelines that supply GEOINT services with accurate, compliant, and performant spatial data • Own ingestion, transformation, versioning, and distribution across cloud and air-gapped environments • Collaborate with Data Analytics Team in creating value adding data products • Develop ingestion pipelines using Python, GDAL, Rasterio, tippecanoe, and PostGIS for vector/raster/3D datasets • Automate tiling, generalization, and 3D tile generation (Cesium 3D Tiles, quantized mesh, terrain) with incremental update workflows • Implement data quality checks (topology validation, completeness, coordinate reference integrity) and provenance tracking (lineage metadata, checksums) • Manage storage lifecycle across cloud (S3/GCS) and on-prem object stores; optimize performance and cost • Package data for offline distribution (MBTiles, geopackages, zipped 3D tiles), including delta updates and secure transfer • Collaborate with Data Acquisition and Licensing to enforce usage rights, export control, and compliance • Monitor pipelines (Prometheus, Grafana), maintain runbooks, and participate in on-call/incident response • Own end-to-end sourcing of new geospatial datasets (commercial and freely available)

Job Requirements

  • 5+ years geospatial data engineering with large datasets and production ownership
  • Delivered pipelines supporting map services, analytics, or offline distribution
  • Worked under licensing/export constraints and documented compliance evidence
  • Participated in on-call/incident response for data platforms
  • German language (B1+) and knowledge of European geospatial data providers (Copernicus, HERE, Airbus, Maxar)
  • Experience with geospatial data engineering in a defence and intelligence environment
  • Experience with vector tile optimizations, level-of-detail algorithms, or GPU-accelerated processing (cuSpatial)
  • Familiarity with NiFi, Kafka, or streaming pipelines for geospatial events

Benefits

  • Build the spatial data backbone powering Orcrist’s missions
  • Work with modern geospatial stack: GDAL, tippecanoe, PostGIS, Maplibre GL JS/Deck.gl, Argo, Kubernetes. Bring your own ideas forward in modernising frameworks and tools
  • Remote-first Germany, equipment and learning budgets, mission-driven impact
  • Collaborate with data acquisition, product, and forward-deployed teams on real-world challenges

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