Wildfires are a $20 trillion dollar crisis. At Earth Force, we're developing cutting-edge technology that dramatically increases the pace and scale of fuels reduction and forest thinning activities. Our aim is to create resilient forests and protect people and communities from the devastating effects of wildfire.

Earth Force’s engineering team is building new products from scratch to combat the wildfire crisis. Together, we are designing the current and future architecture, using the top available technologies and building amazing new products. We are a small and nimble team so everyone is important and affects the future of Earth Force’s products. We welcome diverse perspectives and adopt a "can do" mindset to everything we do.

Our products involve a mix of cutting-edge technologies ranging from low-latency video streaming to customer-facing web products. As a Backend Engineer on the team you’ll be responsible for:

• Shaping the product architecture and playing an active role in the design process

• Building, maintaining and up scaling the company data pipeline.

• Maintain and develop our cloud platform.

• Building web and mobile applications that work both on-line and off-line

• Building and designing company data warehouse and DBs and the relationships between them

• Owning end-to-end major components and codebases

• Making additional contributions to other Earth Force products

• Helping onboard and ramp up additional team members

Required qualifications:

• BA in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent

• 5+ years as a backend engineer using Python

• Demonstrable experience working on projects involving multiple DBs and microservices architecture in a Cloud environment (AWS/Azure/GCP)

• Strong DevOps skills. Be able to independently install, configure and maintain different system components on bare-metal Linux machines / self managed K8S clusters.

• 2+ years experience in cloud platform management using terraform (or equivalent) and in managing security, storage and compute in cloud environments

• 2+ years working with Kubernetes, Docker and CI/CD tools

• Experience with system monitoring and alerting tools

• High level verbal and written proficiency in English