What You'll Own:
- Design, architect, and develop scalable, high-performance systems for processing and visualizing massive geospatial datasets
- Develop and scale a STAC-based geospatial data catalog that integrates ML outputs, satellite data, and customer datasets for easy discoverability and interoperability
- Build robust APIs and backend services for data ingestion, processing, and delivery, with a focus on reliability, security, and maintainability
- Lead end-to-end technical projects, taking ownership from ideation to deployment, with accountability for key components of our platform
- Mentor mid-level and junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing, while fostering a culture of technical excellence
What You'll Bring:
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including past experience building geospatial web applications or data platforms
- Deep experience with Python and expertise in developing and scaling RESTful APIs
- Familiarity with front-end frameworks (React preferred) and the ability to prototype and iterate on user-facing features
- Skill in cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), containerized (Kubernetes) and serverless (AWS Lamdba) architectures, and modern CI/CD workflows
- Experience with geospatial data and tools such as GDAL, PostGIS, and Google Earth Engine (GEE)
What Will Make You Stand Out:
- Experience working with cloud-optimized geospatial datasets (e.g. COG, Zarr)
- Hands-on experience with the cloud-native geospatial ecosystem, particularly STAC and other components of the eoAPI stack
- Familiarity with ML workflow orchestration platforms such as Flyte
- Background in ag-tech, remote sensing, or climate technology
- Understanding of data security and compliance (e.g., SOC2, ISO 27001) in SaaS environments
Our Tech Stack:
- Python
- React
- Union/Flyte
- Dask
- Zarr
- PostGIS
- STAC
- GDAL
- GEE
- GKE
- Lambda
You'll Love Working at Perennial Because:
- Mission-Driven Impact: Contribute directly to solving one of the most urgent global climate change challenges - soil health - through technological innovation.
- High-Performance Culture: Join a talented, fast-paced team where your ideas and work drive meaningful impact.
- Leadership & Growth: Take ownership of projects, mentor others, and grow your leadership skills in a dynamic environment.
- Work-Life Balance: Enjoy flexible work arrangements, generous PTO, and comprehensive health, dental, vision, HSA, and 401(k) benefits.
- Strive for Excellence and Challenge the status quo: See some of our recent press about the problems we’re committed to solving.
- Competitive compensation packages: Our team is our most valuable asset. We want everyone who works for us to feel fairly compensated for the impact they bring to our mission. The team member in this role can expect a starting salary in the range of $150k-$190k alongside equity in the company. Compensation outside this range may be considered for exceptionally well-qualified candidates, depending on experience and expertise.
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What We Do
Perennial is building the world’s leading verification platform for soil-based carbon removal. Our vision is to unlock agricultural soils as the world’s largest carbon sink. To do that, we are building trusted standards, tools, and technologies to help verify climate-smart agriculture.
Perennial uses the world’s most advanced remote measurement technology for soil carbon sequestration and emissions. We fuse machine learning, ground observations, and satellite data to map soil carbon and land-based GHG emissions at continent-level scales. This technology is powering the future of climate-smart agriculture and helping the food supply chain decarbonize.
At Perennial, you will work in a mission-driven and collaborative environment alongside a diverse team with backgrounds spanning science, technology, carbon markets, and agriculture.
Our headquarters are located in Boulder, CO. We are a fully-flexible company for remote and hybrid work.
We’ve raised over $25M from mission-aligned investors including Temasek, Bloomberg, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, SineWave Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, and Collaborative Fund. Our work has been recognized by NASA, the United Nations, Fast Company, and WIRED.
Why Work With Us
We are a mission-driven team and company united by the goal of having a massive beneficial effect on the climate crisis. Our team brings together driven, passionate, collaborative individuals across technology, science, business, and operations. We are invested in each team member's personal and professional development.
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