[Remote] Senior Software Engineer — Spatial Analytics & Open Formats

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CARTO is the world's leading cloud-native spatial analysis platform, trusted by global brands for scalable spatial analysis. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the evolution of their Analytics Toolbox framework and partner-engine SQL strategy, focusing on integrating spatial analytics into various cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities

• Shape how spatial analytics is packaged, versioned, and pushed down into partner engines — and what it looks like when the consumer is an LLM agent, not a UI
• Set the direction for how CARTO writes once and runs everywhere, without losing warehouse-native performance
• Define what spatial-first Iceberg looks like — for CARTO and for the ecosystem
• Represent CARTO externally and help move the standards forward in OGC working groups, the Cloud Native Geospatial community, FOSS4G, conference talks, RFCs
• Help define the interface for AI agents calling into the Toolbox

Skills

• You've spent a serious chunk of your career in the cloud-native geospatial world
• You've built with — and ideally helped shape — some combination of DuckDB, GeoParquet, STAC, Arrow, Iceberg, point cloud formats, MobilityDB, or similar
• You know SQL at the engine level
• You can read an execution plan across BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, and Databricks
• You have a clear view on what each one does well and badly for spatial workloads — partitioning, clustering, file pruning, pushdown, cost
• You build with AI seriously
• You've shipped LLM-powered features in production
• You've worked with agentic patterns
• You have a point of view on what this changes for analytics
• You're visible in the community — a FOSS4G or CNG talk, a maintained OSS project, a standards working group, a blog post people keep citing
• You're a low-ego technical leader
• You set direction by being right and being persuasive, not by being loud
• You give direct feedback in PRs, ask good questions when you don't know something, and make the engineers around you better
• You're comfortable shipping production code — this isn't an architect-only role — in a cloud-native, serverless environment (GCP or AWS)
• TypeScript / Node.js experience is a plus since that's our backend, but it isn't the primary signal we're hiring on

Benefits

• Annual bonus of up to 10% based on company objectives
• Access to our Employee Stock Options Plan
• Private Medical Insurance
• Flexible compensation
• Education stipend
• Remote work stipend
• English classes

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