Senior Staff Geospatial Software Engineer

Bayer•Tulsa, OK

19h•Remote

About The Position

At Bayer, we are visionaries driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges, striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none' is a real possibility. We achieve this with energy, curiosity, and dedication, continuously learning and expanding our capabilities. Our goal is to build planet-scale geospatial data platforms that accelerate sustainable agriculture. At Bayer Crop Science, our mission is to develop agriculture solutions for a sustainable future to meet the challenges of feeding a global population projected to grow to over 9.6 billion by 2050. This involves research and development of innovative modern agriculture solutions based on biotechnology and plant breeding, developing science-based products including seeds and crop protection products, and modern analytics to identify the best crop system for each acre. To accomplish this, we capture petabytes of data in operational systems, including genome sequencing, manufacturing, supply chain, and finance. This also includes a tremendous volume of scientific data from field trials requiring complex analysis to extract meaningful information. Our mission is to understand this data and create software that will help make decisions at unprecedented scales. This role may be residence-based in the US.

Requirements

A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline (an additional 2 years of experience will be considered in lieu of a Bachelor’s Degree)
Shipped multiple generations of a software product, demonstrating long-term technical ownership and evolution
A track record of shipping and maintaining multiple major product releases written in Go or Python
A track record of designing, building, and maintaining multiple product releases of data-intensive geospatial-centric APIs using a RESTful approach
Extensive experience with OGC Standards services
Deep knowledge of geographic science and related technologies including coordinate systems and projections with realizations, global positioning systems, spatial indexing, and spatial topologies
Experience in design and implementation of Foss4G solutions, particularly leveraging GeoServer, PostGIS, and QGIS with an emphasis on vector data models
Extensive experience in system design and architecture for large-scale, distributed applications
Experience with creating and maintaining containerized application deployments
Familiarity with developing in, deploying to, and working with Kubernetes cluster infrastructure
Experience with data modeling for large scale databases
Proficiency in verbal and written English language, capable of connecting with diverse individuals, actively listening to their needs, and supporting meaningful analysis for better decision-making

Nice To Haves

Experience with geoarrow, geoparquet, and geopackage data formats
Experience with emerging geospatial database management systems such as DuckDB Spatial and Sedona DB
Experience working with distributed geospatial data warehousing (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake) and compute (e.g. Spark, Sedona)
Experience implementing h3 geospatial indexing
Contributions to or implementation of these OSGEO projects: GDAL/OGR, GeoServer, GeoTools, PostGIS, PROJ, QGIS, OpenLayers, Leaflet

Responsibilities

Play a key senior role on a geospatial data engineering team, building distributed analytics capabilities and enabling enterprise-wide access to scientific and operational datasets
Apply strong software craftsmanship with your knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and geospatial data models
Partner with other top-level talent in data engineering, software development, and data science to tackle complex, novel problems and deliver solutions with real-world impact on global food systems
Mentor and guide other data engineers in your areas of expertise with a focus on geographic information science and systems
Evaluate, implement, and advocate Foss4G technologies, finding the best fit for each use case and integrating them into production-ready solutions
Lead technical initiatives end-to-end, communicate your technical vision and strategy to the larger organization
Drive impact across enterprise projects spanning multiple areas of the business
Share our work with the broader geospatial and software engineering community at relevant technical conferences