Cloud Native Geospatial Scientist

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⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $80k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🗺️ GIS

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Lynker

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

🔬 Science

Consulting • Science • Engineering

Lynker is a premier science, engineering, and technology company that specializes in providing innovative solutions in weather and climate science, marine/ocean science and engineering, and space weather and space climate. The company partners with governments, communities, and industries to deliver impactful services that address global environmental security and economic prosperity. By leveraging a team of skilled scientists, engineers, and educators, Lynker tackles some of the nation’s most important missions and challenges, while also focusing on training, communications, and outreach for effective environmental policy and compliance.

📋 Description

• Software development: write and maintain clean, tested Python that runs reliably over large areas. • Large-scale data: work with large raster and vector datasets using cloud-native formats and storage. • Collaboration: build things other teams can use, working with the Platform, Science, Modeling, and Applications teams. • Catalogs & formats: build and maintain STAC catalogs and cloud-optimized data (COG, GeoParquet, Zarr) so large datasets are searchable and quick to access. • Pipelines: write reproducible pipelines that process terrain, hydrography, and imagery at regional to continental scale, using distributed compute. • Services: stand up and run the services that publish and tile the data, such as pgSTAC and TiTiler, and keep them reliable and versioned.

🎯 Requirements

• Master's in geospatial science, geography, environmental or earth science, hydrology, computer science, or a related field; or a Bachelor's plus 2 years building geospatial data pipelines, tools, or cloud-native services; or equivalent hands-on experience in place of a degree. • Strong Python and solid software habits: Git, testing, and code review. • Real experience with cloud-native geospatial formats and services, and hands-on AWS experience (our primary cloud); GCP or Azure experience also welcome. • Solid geospatial fundamentals: projections, raster and vector data, and common GIS tools. • Experience with the STAC ecosystem and tools such as pgSTAC, stac-fastapi, or TiTiler. • Distributed processing with Dask, Spark, cloud batch, or Google Earth Engine. • The modern geospatial Python stack: xarray, rasterio, geopandas, and formats like COG, GeoParquet, and Zarr. • Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD for AWS deployments (e.g., Terraform or CloudFormation, Docker, GitHub Actions). • Turning models or analyses into operational, regularly updated products or forecasts. • Machine learning and remote sensing for environmental or land-cover work. • Background in hydrology or environmental science. • Colorado Front Range presence for periodic in-person collaboration.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare for the employee at no monthly cost • Healthcare benefit covers medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision • Personal Time Off (PTO) Policy plus paid holidays • Highly competitive compensation plan regularly calibrated against industry and location benchmarks • 401(k) retirement plan with company-matching • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – we’re all company owners! • Flexible spending accounts • Employee assistance program (EAP) • Short- and long-term disability insurance • Life and accident insurance • Tuition assistance/Training/Workforce improvement reimbursement per year • Spot bonuses for exceptional performance • Annual Employee Recognition Awards with bonuses • Employee Referral Program • Free centralized, self-directed Learning Management System to learn at your own pace • Personalized career growth plans for every employee