Data Engineer – Satellite Analytics Platform

About the role

LiveEO is building the market leader in satellite analytics. As a Data Engineer you will own and harden the data‑delivery backbone that turns model detections into reliable, customer‑ready insights for critical assets such as pipelines and power grids.

Key responsibilities

• Co‑own and extend the delivery‑management service (SDMS) and insight‑generation pipelines.
• Harden services with tests and documentation to remove single‑person dependencies.
• Maintain the AWS and Prefect orchestration platform, including Lambda glue code and cross‑repo releases.
• Manage the PostgreSQL/PostGIS data model, schema design and Alembic migrations.
• Unblock stuck orchestration runs, ensure delivery SLAs, and automate quality checks across the serving path.

Required profile

• Hands‑on, delivery‑first mindset for backend and platform engineering.
• Experience working in a collaborative squad with senior engineers and cross‑functional teams.
• Ability to design deterministic, observable, and resilient data pipelines at scale.

Required skills

• Python (uv‑managed)
• FastAPI, Uvicorn, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Pydantic
• PostgreSQL, PostGIS, GeoAlchemy2
• AWS services: S3, Lambda, EC2
• Prefect, Ray/Anyscale
• GDAL, Rasterio, GeoPandas, Shapely
• STAC (pystac), Cloud‑Optimised GeoTIFF (rio‑cogeo)
• MLflow