Data Engineer

Aim high, go beyond!

At Open Cosmos we are solving the world’s biggest challenges from space, providing businesses, governments and researchers access to more readily available information than ever before - ready for the challenge? Then read on…

Working in our Data Division

Our Data division transforms satellite data into meaningful insights that drive real-world impact. The team delivers all data products generated by Open Cosmos and its partners, curates and develops DataCosmos — our geospatial data platform — and builds integrations that make satellite imagery easy to access and act on. Their work helps organisations turn data into action and create positive change on Earth.

As a Data Engineer, you’ll be at the core of how we turn raw Earth Observation data into scalable, reliable and high-quality data products. You’ll design and build the pipelines and systems that power our data platform, ensuring customers across the world can access and act on satellite data with confidence.

What will you be doing?

Developing and maintaining data ingestion and processing pipelines for satellite and Earth Observation data

Designing and implementing scalable, reliable processing systems to support payload data processing and quality control

Establishing and enforcing data and metadata standards to ensure consistency, usability and quality across datasets

Balancing customer needs with technical architecture, delivering solutions aligned with platform and operational constraints

Proposing and implementing improvements to data architecture, scalability and performance

Integrating new data processing techniques and data types into existing workflows

Translating scientific or analytical code into efficient, production-ready implementations

Maintaining and evolving complex data processing systems with monitoring, reliability and continuous improvement in mind

Supporting EO data quality and performance through validation, control and optimisation mechanisms

What You’ll bring

Strong Python capability for building data processing pipelines

Confidence working in Linux environments to run and maintain workflows

Solid understanding of data ingestion, transformation and processing pipelines

Ability to design and manage data structures, formats and metadata standards

Capability to work with APIs and databases (particularly REST interfaces and PostgreSQL)

Understanding of data-driven and event-driven architectures

Knowledge of satellite imagery and Earth Observation data processing concepts

Familiarity with geospatial tools such as QGIS, ArcGIS or similar

Awareness of containerised and orchestrated environments (e.g. Kubernetes)

Ability to translate analytical or scientific code into efficient, production-ready systems

This role can be based in Oxford (UK), Barcelona (Spain), Tenerife, Porto (Portugal) or Athens (Greece).

To apply, you must have the legal right to work in your chosen location.

When applying, please submit your CV in English.

Why Open Cosmos?

Work at the cutting edge of space technology with customers around the globe.

A mission-driven company making space accessible to help solve real-world challenges.

A diverse, ambitious, and supportive team.