Senior Software Engineer – Geospatial

🔥 25 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $165k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🗺️ GIS

Where this job comes from

Posted on Ocient's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship 25 minutes ago

Logo of Ocient

Ocient

51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 $132k Venture Round on 2022-07

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Ocient is a company that specializes in hyperscale data warehouse solutions. Their technology is designed to deliver real-time analytics and manage complex data sets efficiently. Ocient provides tailored solutions that can be deployed either in the cloud or on-premises, leveraging industry-standard hardware. They focus on offering high performance, energy-efficient solutions that are cost-effective and optimized for various industries such as AdTech, Telecom, Government, Financial Services, Operational IT, and Geospatial sectors. With a strong emphasis on security and compliance, their platform supports SQL workloads, data pipelines, and machine learning capabilities. Founded in 2016, Ocient strives to tackle large-scale data analytics challenges by providing end-to-end solutions and expert management services.

📋 Description

• Extend and harden Ocient’s 120+ geospatial function library across accessors, constructors, measures, predicates, spatial operators, relationships, transformations, and parsers/formatters • Ensure numerical correctness for spherical and spheroid WGS84 computations, including geodesics, great-circle distance, area, antimeridian and pole handling, degenerate geometries, and precision behavior • Improve spatial performance and indexing across trillion-row datasets through spatial indexing, pruning, partitioning, bounding-volume acceleration, vectorized evaluation, and planner integration • Deepen spatiotemporal analytics, including trajectory reconstruction, interpolation, movement analysis, and co-location analysis • Connect geospatial capabilities with spatial clustering, geographic nearest-neighbor search, in-database ML, and other analytical engine surfaces • Translate telco, adtech, and national-security customer workloads into engine capabilities with Product and customer-facing teams • Write design documents, tests, and documentation to make spatial behavior explicit and prevent regressions • Own meaningful components of the geospatial engine end to end, from spherical-math correctness to hyperscale query performance

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years building production software systems • Solid experience in C++ or comparable systems-level work with willingness to work primarily in C++ • Solid grasp of computational geometry and spherical/geodetic geometry • Exposure to geospatial data, standards, or libraries such as WGS84, OGC/WKT/WKB, GEOS, S2, H3, or PostGIS • Comfort with profiling, algorithmic optimization, and reasoning about work at scale • Strong numerical correctness and edge-case testing and documentation skills • Ability to work across teams and codebases and turn ambiguous requirements into concrete solutions • Candidates must be based in the United States • Employer cannot sponsor or transfer visas of any kind • Candidates must keep their camera on for the duration of video interviews • Video filters, face-altering effects, and virtual backgrounds are not permitted during interviews

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first work environment • Video interviews conducted remotely • Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations during the application process

Apply Now

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Similar Jobs

🔥 15 hours ago

GAI Consultants, Inc.

501 - 1000

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

GIS Specialist developing Esri maps, databases, and spatial analyses for GAI’s engineering and environmental projects. Supporting energy, infrastructure, permitting, and responsible-development initiatives.

🕒 2 days ago

Terracon

5001 - 10000

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

🔬 Science

Corporate GIS Manager leading centralized GIS teams and spatial-data capabilities for Terracon, a multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm. Supporting environmental, geotechnical, materials, facilities, and CRM projects nationwide.

🕒 3 days ago

Harris Computer

10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Sales Manager selling GIS and AI software while coaching a quota-carrying team. Owning territory growth, forecasts, budgets, and customer relationships across US public-sector and utility markets.

🕒 October 20

Ardent

51 - 200

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

ArcGIS specialist administering and modernizing enterprise geospatial systems for federal government projects at Ardent. Managing ArcGIS Enterprise operations, automation, upgrades, monitoring, and cloud architecture assessments.

🕒 October 20

Cushman & Wakefield

10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏗️ Construction

Portfolio Strategy & GIS Manager combining GIS, analytics, and commercial real estate strategy at Cushman & Wakefield. Developing maps, dashboards, and portfolio recommendations for client decisions.

Developed by Lior Neu-ner. I'd love to hear your feedback — Get in touch via DM or support@remoterocketship.com
Follow Remote Rocketship on LinkedInFollow Remote Rocketship on InstagramFollow Remote Rocketship on FacebookFollow Remote Rocketship on TikTok