Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Zanskar • Salt Lake City, UT

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior/Staff Software Engineer will play a critical role developing and maintaining Zanskar’s next-generation multi-physics well-targeting engine. This role involves leading the design and delivery of a reliable distributed compute system, learning and scaling an existing system, collaborating with geoscientists and engineers, and teaching others about distributed systems engineering. The company, Zanskar, aims to make geothermal energy a cheap and vital contributor to a carbon-free electrical grid by revolutionizing the exploration process using novel software and machine learning modeling.

Requirements

• Minimum 7+ years of experience in software engineering in a business environment, ideally with a heavy scientific component.
• Experience leading the design and implementation of distributed computing systems.
• Experience with the development of fault-tolerant, resilient event-driven architectures.
• Experience building and managing orchestration systems to massively scale cloud-based workloads (serverless, Kubernetes, and/or custom VM fleets).
• Experience defining and developing persistent data storage for digital artifacts, both with RDBMS and cloud blob storage at scale.
• Experience ensuring system observability through logging, monitoring, alerting and metrics.
• Familiarity with software engineering best practices: CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar), version control (GitHub), containerization (Docker) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Experience architecting, permissioning and maintaining cloud resources (GCP, AWS).
• Fluency in Python and SQL are required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with experiment tracking.
• Experience with optimization methods.
• Experience with applied algorithm development.
• Experience with reinforcement learning and other AI/ML techniques.
• Experience with web development.
• Familiarity with geoscience concepts and applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of a reliable distributed compute system that meets the ongoing needs of scientific research teams.
• Learn the existing system, identify how to migrate it for scale and reliability.
• Collaborate with geophysicists, geoscientists, seismologists, and engineers to solve hard problems.
• Teach critical skills and experience in distributed systems engineering to others.
• Develop and maintain Zanskar’s next-generation multi-physics well-targeting engine.

Benefits

• Paid holidays
• 15 days PTO + PTO accrual increase based on tenure
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401k
• Stock options
• Growth opportunities at a company with a direct impact in displacing carbon emissions

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed