Software Engineer, Platform

at  EARTHMOVER

Join the Earthmover team as a software engineer and help us build the world’s best cloud platform for scientific data teams.

DESCRIPTION

Preamble
Earthmover is building a product that solves the biggest storage and compute challenges of our time for users in the deep sciences - think climate, earth observations, biotech, machine learning, and AI.

Our first product, Arraylake, is a data lake platform for multi-dimensional scientific array data. It enables users to manage and process array data in open standard cloud-native formats, with features like versioning, cataloging, collaboration and access control on top. We’re starting to build powerful products and experiences on top of this foundation to advance the field of scientific computing and accelerate progress in many domains. Some specific problems we’re thinking about:

• Collaboration between scientists, teams and organizations. Getting discoverability, sharing, and access controls right.
• Transparent, high performance array access, along any dimension.
• Groundbreaking open access public datasets to the entire scientific community.
• Generating insights for organizations about how they utilize datasets on our platform.
• Navigation, exploration, and visualization of nuanced hierarchical scientific data structures.

JD
As a scientific data platform company, our product has two key objectives: provide a best in class array storage and processing system, and deliver an exceptional collaborative user experience on top of this. We’re very early in our product development lifecycle, we seek a team member who can help us start to rapidly expose our platform to the world and support building products and user experiences on top of our core offering.

YOU’RE A GREAT FIT IF YOU

• Have experience designing and building high quality APIs.
• Have experience building control layers, user permission systems, or access control tools.
• Are product minded, and excited to work directly with customers & scientists to shape our product to solve their problems.
• Would enjoy partnering with other parts of the stack to rapidly iterate on new product features, in particular our web and client libraries.
• Have at least 5 years experience as a software engineer working on backend systems. Our stack is written in Python/Rust, experience with any typed backend language is valuable.
• Have a genuine enthusiasm for this job description, even if you don’t yet have experience with all of the listed responsibilities. We have a top class team and are open to helping the right candidate grow into these responsibilities over time.

• Expose APIs on top of our data layer that help us build great user experiences and data products for customers.
• Own our API control layer, and continue to expand access control features for organizations, users, and API keys.
• Work on core parts of our API performance and quality, bringing best practices around things like stability, monitoring, versioning, and client integrations.
• Improve overall query performance and consistency wherever it’s needed in our API or database layer.