Overstory

Senior Geospatial Data Engineer

United Kingdom, Europe

RemoteFull time roleSenior Level

3 months ago

About the Job

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

The grid is the backbone of life as we know it. It powers hospitals, keeps food fresh, and ensures communities stay connected. But extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing wildfire risks are putting this critical system under pressure. All of this combined makes the electric utility industry the greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.

One of the leading causes of catastrophic wildfires and power outages? Trees and brush coming into contact with power lines.

That’s where we help. At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. By giving utilities critical analysis on those risks, we’re helping prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.

Our team spans the Americas and Europe, and we work with utility partners across the Americas and beyond. We’re outdoor enthusiasts, musicians, artists, athletes, parents, and adventurers—15 nationalities strong and growing. What unites us is a passion for solving complex problems, a commitment to climate action, and the belief that technology should be a force for good.

Join us to help us build a more resilient world together.

The role

There are two open positions being hired by this role. The first involves working with engineers on the Data Ingestion team to ingest satellite imagery and other geospatial data from external sources, and curating that data for downstream teams. The second is working with Machine Learning Engineers (MLEs) on the Vegetation modelling team to create data products from satellite imagery and other geospatial data. Candidates are encouraged to share their preferences on these two ways of working as they learn more about Overstory and their desired role in the organization.

In either role, you will contribute by building and maintaining data pipelines, creating new processes to efficiently scale our data processing and/or modelling capabilities, and mentoring more junior engineers and/or MLEs. You will collaborate heavily with your team members and people all across the organization.

What you will do

Over the next 6-12 months you will be working on:

Optimizing existing processes and creating new systems.
Reduce the amount of manual work required to process different types of geospatial data.
Performance & Scalability: ensure that our processes can handle 3x YoY growth

You will be an influential member of the team taking the lead on and contributing to key initiatives. Additionally you will coach and mentor other engineers on the team.

About You

Passionate about climate
Approximately 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering.
Product minded and able to demonstrate significant impact you have had on a business through the application of technology
Proven experience of geospatial data engineering across the following (or similar) technologies: Python, GDAL/OGR, Data pipelines, PostGIS DB, QGIS).
Comfortable working in a build it, run it environment (GCP, cloud run, grafana, k8s) - or similar.
Ability to design and implement scalable and resilient systems.
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
Passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies and industry trends.
You are based in GMT/ CET/ EST time zone

If you don’t meet all of the above yet feel you have lots to offer, please apply anyway.

What you get

To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
Equity and a competitive salary.

About our team

We are a group of 64 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from nine different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Denmark and Canada. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.

Diversity & Inclusion

We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.

We’re always looking to diversify our team further, but we’re proud of the fact that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 46% of the overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Estonian, Danish and Korean.

Our values

Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.

We act with urgency.

Our curiosity fuels our growth.

We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.

We’re rooted in diversity.

Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.

We care for each other.

We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.

Trust is fundamental.

We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.

About the Company

Overstory

Amsterdam, Netherlands

51-100

<p>Working to solve our climate crisis is the most important mission of our time, and the most exciting problem to be working on. Overstory’s mission is to help solve our climate crisis by providing real-time intelligence about the planet’s vegetation. In our first step toward this mission, we are applying machine learning to satellite imagery to track forests and vegetation. Today, we proudly partner with 40+ leading utilities worldwide, including 4 of the top 10 US utilities, to help reduce wildfire risk and increase grid reliability to prevent power outages.</p> <p>We have already proven our business model and we’re all united behind our ambitious vision to scale up this model to help humanity and the planet. We closed a $14 million Series A, led by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/b-capital-group/" data-attribute-index="0" data-entity-type="MINI_COMPANY">B Capital </a>and welcoming <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-nature-conservancy/" data-attribute-index="2" data-entity-type="MINI_COMPANY">The Nature Conservancy</a> to our collective of climate-minded investors. This milestone includes additional investment and continued support from <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/convective-capital/" data-attribute-index="4" data-entity-type="MINI_COMPANY">Convective Capital</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/semapanext/" data-attribute-index="6" data-entity-type="MINI_COMPANY">Semapa Next</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/bentley-itwin-ventures/" data-attribute-index="8" data-entity-type="MINI_COMPANY">Bentley iTwin Ventures</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/palebluedotvcclimate/" data-attribute-index="10" data-entity-type="MINI_COMPANY">Pale blue dot</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/capitalt/" data-attribute-index="12" data-entity-type="MINI_COMPANY">CapitalT</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/moxxie-ventures/" data-attribute-index="14" data-entity-type="MINI_COMPANY">Moxxie Ventures</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/overwater-ventures/" data-attribute-index="16" data-entity-type="MINI_COMPANY">Overwater Ventures </a></p> <p>If you want to have a real impact and solve some of the world's most complex challenges with advanced technology, come work with our talented and passionate team. Overstory is a remote-first company, with people living all over the U.S. and Europe.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are a group of 60 people from all over the world. Twelve nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from nine different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden and Canada. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.</span></p> <h2><strong>Our values</strong></h2> <h4><em>Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.</em></h4> <p>We act with urgency.</p> <h4><em>Our curiosity fuels our growth.</em></h4> <p>We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.</p> <h4><em>We’re rooted in diversity.</em></h4> <p>Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.</p> <h4><em>We care for each other.</em></h4> <p>We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.</p> <h4><em>Trust is fundamental.</em></h4> <p>We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.</p> <p> </p>

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