Data Engineer

5 hours, 53 minutes ago
Full-time
Mid Level
Software Development
Meridia

Meridia

Meridia provides geospatial data solutions for smallholder supply chains, focusing on traceability, transparency, living income, and regenerative agriculture to drive industry transformation and compliance.

Diversified Telecommunication Services
51-250
Founded 2015

Description

  • Write Python scripts to acquire and process data from academic, government, and commercial sources for product development.
  • Maintain accurate metadata for internal datasets using scripts, automation, and selected tooling.
  • Develop internal tools and scripts to automate data processing and scale ETL tasks for geospatial data using orchestration and cloud technologies.
  • Manage the team’s Git repository of ETL scripts and follow version control best practices to keep code organized, accessible, and reproducible.
  • Optimize data ingestion processes to ensure reliable, timely, and scalable delivery of data into downstream products and analytics workflows.
  • Monitor ingestion pipelines with logging, alerting, and metrics to detect failures or data inconsistencies.
  • Contribute to internal data catalogues, manuals, dictionaries, and glossary content across countries, products, and projects.
  • Identify bottlenecks and implement improvements to increase operational efficiency.
  • Work closely with teams in Indonesia and the Netherlands, reporting to the Data Manager in Indonesia.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in a relevant role.
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Ability to collect and organize data from multiple sources effectively and efficiently.
  • Understanding of data management and data entry processes.
  • Independent, proactive, accountable, and reliable team player.
  • Full working proficiency in English.
  • Experience building, optimizing, and maintaining scalable ETL/data pipelines, especially for large and complex geospatial datasets.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
  • Strong Python skills and familiarity with data engineering frameworks such as Pandas, Pydantic, Rasterio, and Tippecanoe.
  • Solid understanding of data governance, Git-based version control, documentation, data quality assurance, reproducibility, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Familiarity with GIS scripting such as Python, GeoPandas, and PostGIS, and GIS software like QGIS (advantage).
  • ETL experience (advantage).
  • Demonstrated projects or case studies involving forest monitoring or land-use analysis (advantage).
  • Experience with data version control tools such as DVC (advantage).
  • Start-up experience (advantage).

Benefits

  • Market-rate salary commensurate with skills and competencies.
  • Four-day work week.
  • Remote working position.
  • Laptop and external monitor provided for work.
  • Annual employee-led Learning & Development budget.
  • Opportunity to join a fast-growing impact venture with an informal, professional work culture.
  • Opportunity to work with team members, clients, and users in various countries.

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