Data Engineer (Geospatial)

Petram Analytics · Earth observation

Move petabytes of imagery without spending a fortune doing it.

Data engineeringMid (2–5 yrs)Fully remotePermanentSponsors visas

Salary band

£62,000 – £80,000

Location
Cambridge
Pattern
Fully remote
Posted
23 Aug 2026 (11d ago)
Process
3 stages, listed below
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The work

The archive grows by several terabytes a week. Everything downstream depends on it being organised well enough to query cheaply.

Worth knowing

  • Remote within the UK, one week a quarter in Cambridge.

Must have

  • Large-scale data processing
  • Object storage cost awareness
  • SQL and Python

Nice to have

  • Cloud-optimised GeoTIFF
  • STAC catalogues

Interview process

If the client adds a stage after you’ve started, we’ll tell you, and you can withdraw.

  1. 01

    Intro call

    30 min

    Their questions and yours. No competency framework.

  2. 02

    Technical conversation

    60 min

    Walk through something you built. No live coding.

  3. 03

    Team and offer

    45 min

    Meet the people you would work with, talk numbers.