Data Engineer (Geospatial)

Location: hirify.global GmbH Berlin Office, hybrid

Company

hirify.global develops satellite analytics products that monitor changes around critical infrastructure such as pipelines and power grids.

What you will do

• Co-own and extend delivery-management, insight-generation, and post-processing services that turn model detections into customer-ready insights.
• Harden backend services with testing, documentation, and reliable ownership practices.
• Maintain the AWS and Prefect delivery platform, including Lambda-based integrations, orchestration flows, and cross-repository releases.
• Manage PostgreSQL and PostGIS schemas and Alembic migrations.
• Unblock orchestration runs, reduce manual delivery steps, and maintain delivery SLAs.
• Automate schema, geometry, and coverage-quality checks while maintaining traceable metadata and STAC entries.

Requirements

• Strong production experience with Python.
• Experience building and operating backend services with FastAPI or similar frameworks, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, and Pydantic.
• Production experience with AWS, especially S3, Lambda, EC2, and IAM basics.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, spatial data, and orchestration tools such as Prefect, Airflow, or Dagster.
• Ability to handle geospatial raster and vector data using tools such as Rasterio, GeoPandas, Shapely, STAC, and Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFF.
• Pragmatic delivery, reliability, operations, ownership, and verification mindset.

Nice to have

• Experience with PostGIS, GeoAlchemy2, Ray, or Anyscale.
• Experience with MLflow, experiment and dataset versioning, or remote sensing and SAR data.
• Knowledge of observability tools such as structured logging, OpenTelemetry, and alerting.
• Experience with satellite provider APIs including Capella, UP42, Planet, or ICEYE.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours and a hybrid work model.
• Career development support, autonomy, and opportunities for creative initiative.
• Overtime is limited to necessary situations and offset with time off and rest.
• Internal workshops, knowledge-sharing sessions, journal clubs, and hackathons.
• Central Berlin Kreuzberg office with free fruit, nuts, and drinks.
• Potential employee stock option participation, Urban Sports membership, BVG subsidy, and a corporate pension program.