Senior Data Engineer
First Street7 months ago
Base Salary
$100k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Support the processing, analysis, and interpretation of geospatial observations and climate-risk modeling data.
- Develop processes for processing large volumes of hazard prediction data to improve risk assessment quality and accuracy.
- Plan and execute data workflows in local and cloud-based environments.
- Analyze raster and vector data at scale to improve model accuracy and identify and remediate quality-control issues.
- Perform statistical analysis to validate hazard model predictions and assess model uncertainties.
- Design and implement quality assurance checks for climate-risk data and derived statistics.
- Support customer issues through quality-control checks and explanations of models and risk statistics.
- Coordinate databases and pipelines with APIs and web services.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in data science, climate science, or a related field.
- At least five years of professional experience.
- Experience designing and using databases such as PostgreSQL.
- Proficiency with SQL queries for efficient and reproducible analysis of complex datasets.
- Proficiency with Python or other scripted languages for building data pipelines.
- Experience processing and analyzing geospatial data with open-source tools.
- Strong understanding of probability and statistics applied to spatial data.
- Expertise building data pipelines on local and cloud-based systems.
- Proficiency with source-control platforms such as Git.
- Experience in GIS and/or geospatial statistical analysis.
- Preferred experience with DBT and Spark.
- A science-based approach emphasizing reliability, accuracy, and reproducibility.
- Previous physical-sciences experience is a preferred qualification.
- A master’s degree is preferred.
Benefits
- US base salary range of $100,000-$150,000 plus stock options.
- Hybrid schedule with in-office work on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
- Employee Stock Option Plan.
- 15 vacation days, 8 statutory company holidays, 5 winter-break closure days, and 10 sick days.
- Healthcare premium coverage at 100% for employees or significant family-plan contributions, plus vision and dental benefits.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Access to One Medical, Teledoc, HealthAdvocate, Kindbody, and Talkspace.
- Company 401(k) program, commuter benefits, and life insurance.
- Weekly team meals, office coffee and snacks, and a technology startup environment.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About First Street
First Street builds property-level climate risk analytics that translate hazards into financial impacts for investors, lenders, insurers, real estate firms, and public agencies. It offers global flood, wildfire, heat, and other hazard models and loss estimates via APIs, datasets, and decision tools, using transparent, peer-reviewed methods. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York City, the company operates as a privately held, venture-backed business.