The data engineer is working alongside the co-founder and VP product of OKO and will be responsible for building the tools to accelerate the creation of innovative climate insurance products for agriculture. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with demonstrated experience and ideally some training in meteorological science. Additionally, successful candidates will be well-organized and detail oriented, and will work well in a collaborative / innovative team environment.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Working closely with VP of product to understand data requirements and develop data solutions to support the business growth of climate insurance products
• Maintaining and growing the existing data infrastructure for climate insurance products
• Designing, developing and automating high quality data management to improve dataset usability
• Developing and maintaining scalable and robust data pipelines using related technologies
• Implementing best practices for data modelling and data integration
• Monitoring, troubleshooting and resolving issues relating to data pipelines
• Staying current with industry trends and advancement in data engineering
• Contributing to the developments and enhancement of data engineering standards, practices and documentation
• Processing common geospatial data types: both raster (GeoTIFF/COG/ZARR/NetCDF/GRIB) and vector (SHP/GeoJSON/others)

Preferred Experience

• 3 years of experience (training in meteorological science would be a big plus)
• Languages: fluent in English. French or Hebrew is a plus
• Technical: Experienced in DevOps, Linux, Microsoft Azure. Advanced proficiency in R