Geospatial Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Geospatial Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Description

Solafune develops AI and cloud-processing technologies for satellite and geospatial data. We are looking for an engineer who can bridge cloud architecture, data processing, and geospatial workloads.The role will focus on turning remote-sensing and AI algorithms into scalable production systems on AWS. You will work closely with Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Data Engineers to design pipelines capable of processing large volumes of satellite imagery while maintaining good performance, reliability, and cloud cost efficiency.This is not a traditional ETL/Data Warehouse role. A significant part of the work involves compute-intensive geospatial processing, AWS architecture, workflow orchestration, infrastructure automation, scalability, monitoring, and cost optimization.

This position is eligible to full-remote workers within the APAC region.

Responsibilities

»Design, build, and operate scalable AWS pipelines for satellite imagery and large geospatial datasets.

»Architect and optimize cloud infrastructure for batch and asynchronous geospatial processing, with a focus on performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.

»Productionize AI/ML and remote-sensing algorithms into reliable, automated processing workflows.

»Build and maintain pipelines using AWS services such as S3, AWS Batch, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, Lambda, EventBridge, and CloudWatch.

»Design efficient parallel-processing strategies for large imagery datasets, including job orchestration, retries, failure recovery, monitoring, and intermediate data management.

»Implement Infrastructure as Code, automated deployments, and production-grade monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards.

»Collaborate with Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Data Engineering teams to integrate processing workflows with user-facing applications, APIs, and the broader geospatial data platform.

»Evaluate new AWS services and cloud-processing architectures as workload and platform requirements evolve.

Requirements

Solafune develops AI and cloud-processing technologies for satellite and geospatial data. We are looking for an engineer who can bridge cloud architecture, data processing, and geospatial workloads.The role will focus on turning remote-sensing and AI algorithms into scalable production systems on AWS. You will work closely with Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Data Engineers to design pipelines capable of processing large volumes of satellite imagery while maintaining good performance, reliability, and cloud cost efficiency.This is not a traditional ETL/Data Warehouse role. A significant part of the work involves compute-intensive geospatial processing, AWS architecture, workflow orchestration, infrastructure automation, scalability, monitoring, and cost optimization.

This position is eligible to full-remote workers within the APAC region.

Responsibilities

»Design, build, and operate scalable AWS pipelines for satellite imagery and large geospatial datasets.

»Architect and optimize cloud infrastructure for batch and asynchronous geospatial processing, with a focus on performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.

»Productionize AI/ML and remote-sensing algorithms into reliable, automated processing workflows.

»Build and maintain pipelines using AWS services such as S3, AWS Batch, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, Lambda, EventBridge, and CloudWatch.

»Design efficient parallel-processing strategies for large imagery datasets, including job orchestration, retries, failure recovery, monitoring, and intermediate data management.

»Implement Infrastructure as Code, automated deployments, and production-grade monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards.

»Collaborate with Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Data Engineering teams to integrate processing workflows with user-facing applications, APIs, and the broader geospatial data platform.

»Evaluate new AWS services and cloud-processing architectures as workload and platform requirements evolve.

Preferred Experiences

Preferred Skills & Experience

»Expertise in processing satellite imagery or remote-sensing data at scale.

»Experience with spatial tiling, mosaicking, reprojection, masking, or AOI-based processing.

»Familiarity with AWS Spot Instances, Savings Plans, S3 lifecycle policies, or FinOps practices.

»Experience with Kubernetes or distributed computing frameworks such as Dask, Ray, or Spark.

»Ability to use SQS, Kafka, Kinesis, or similar messaging/streaming systems.

»Experience with GPU-based or compute-intensive workloads.

»Familiarity with ML/MLOps workflows.

We are looking for

What We’re Looking For

»Experience working with geospatial or satellite data

»Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD

»Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL/PostGIS

»Ability to work across technical domains and independently solve complex problems

»Comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced, globally distributed team

Working Conditions

Salary

Compensation: Determined based on experience, skills, and location.

Location

Remote / Japan preferred

This role is remote-friendly within the APAC region, with candidates based in Japan especially welcome.

Job Type

Full time

Work hours

Work Style

09:00 ～ 18:00 （Break： 12:00 ～ 13:00 ）JST

Flexible Working Hours System

»Workdays: 5 days per week (Monday - Friday)

»Acceptable Working Hours: 5:00 AM - 10:00 PM (including a 60-minute break)

Probation period

6 Months Probational Period

Benefits

Employee benefits available to Japan-based employees.