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Tech stack
Required
Location
REMOTE (US)
Work setup
- Employment
- full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Remote policy
- Remote (US)
- Remote scope
- country-limited
- Timezones
- at least three recurring 3-hour time slots every week when you and the team are all available at the same time (Monday through Thursday, between 15:00-23:00 UTC / 10:00-17:00 Eastern).
- Travel
- unclear
- Visa
- unclear
Role details
Responsibilities
- Own architecture and data infrastructure
- Work across engineering and partner-facing teams to build systems that support Indigenous data sovereignty
- Enable secure collaboration and long-term stewardship of community data
- Write production code
- Review PRs
- Improve the stack-deploy developer experience, dramatically simplifying the installation and first-time configuration of the Guardian Connector software stack.
- Design and implement governed data access systems, including role-based access controls (RBAC), scoped or time-bound data credentials, and clear boundaries between private, shared, and public data.
- Develop AI and LLM capabilities that preserve data sovereignty, prototyping and evaluating approaches such as local or self-hosted models, retrieval pipelines, and natural language interfaces.
- Set technical norms for the team and actively develop the engineers around you through pairing, mentorship, and code review.
Application
See link for example projects and how to apply: https://conservationmetrics.com/careers/lead-data-platform-engineer/
- Email subject
- eng-apply@conservationmetrics.com
- Apply flow
- external
Company context
Co-create an open-source data platform designed to support territorial monitoring and Indigenous data sovereignty
- Product
- Open-source data platform for territorial monitoring and Indigenous data sovereignty
- Industry
- Conservation
- Size
- small
- Stage
- growing
- Open source
- open-source data platform
Description
Indigenous People around the world are working tirelessly to protect and manage their territories under mounting external threats. Conservation Metrics is a small, mission-driven company co-creating an open-source data platform designed to support territorial monitoring and Indigenous data sovereignty. It combines remote sensing products (maps, alerts, and change detection), mobile data collection tools, secure data warehousing, and governed data access to allow Indigenous communities to explore, analyze, and summarize their information.<p>Lead position: You will own architecture and data infrastructure. You will work across engineering and partner-facing teams to build systems that support Indigenous data sovereignty, secure collaboration, and long-term stewardship of community data. We are looking for someone who can work through hard technical trade-offs and commit. In addition, Leads at Conservation Metrics are hands-on, writing production code and reviewing PRs to stay close to the system.
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