Full-Stack Software Engineer, Platform Data
Salt Lake, UT - USA
Job Summary
Role Overview
Title: Full-Stack Software Engineer Platform Data
Hours: Full-time; salaried
Location: Salt Lake City UT (on-site with hybrid flexibility)
Benefits Eligible: Yes
Manager: JD White
Mission Why we exist and why we need you
Geothermal energy is the most abundant renewable energy source in the world. There is 2300 times more energy in geothermal heat in the ground than in oil gas coal and methane combined. However historically its been hard to find and expensive to develop. At Zanskar were using better technology to find and develop new geothermal resources in order to make geothermal a cheap and vital contributor to a carbon-free electrical grid. Joining us means having a direct impact in displacing carbon emissions and growth opportunities in a startup environment.
The Platform Data team exists to organize all of Zanskars data internal purchased and public and transform it into actionable insights. We do that in two ways: we build the data systems and pipelines that bring messy heterogeneous data into one trustworthy place and we build the web apps that put that data in front of the geoscientists engineers data scientists and operators who use it to make decisions.
Outcomes - Problems youll solve
Youll design and operate pipelines that ingest data from many sources internal systems purchased datasets and external feeds reconciling them into clean well-modeled findable data that people trust. Youll also build the web apps which deliver that data to stakeholders including dashboards internal applications and other short you will be helping create a scalable data ecosystem in keeping with best practices so that geothermal experts can make decisions with confidence.
Youll own features end to end: designing system architecture pipelines APIs and frontends while being accountable for ensuring the entire system runs smoothly. Youll partner directly with teams across the organization to understand what theyre trying to learn from the data then build the thing that allows them to answer their questions.
Competencies What were looking for
Full-stack builder: Youve built and maintained backend data systems and their associated user-facing applications. Youre fluent in Python and SQL on the backend and in TypeScript and React on the frontend. You own features spanning the whole path from source to screen.
Data engineering instincts: Youve designed schemas and built pipelines that move data reliably from messy sources into clean queryable form. You think about idempotency data quality and what happens when an upstream source changes. Experience with orchestration and warehouse tooling (e.g. Airflow Dagster dbt Snowflake or BigQuery) is a strong plus. Experience with geospatial or scientific data raster/vector formats large file stores PostGIS or similar is also nice-to-have.
Product-minded and collaborative: You can sit with a geoscientist watch where they get stuck and translate that into shipped products. You treat stakeholders as partners working comfortably across teams keeping people in the loop surfacing trade-offs early and building alignment on what to build and why.
Cloud & infrastructure fluency: Youre comfortable deploying and operating what you build on a public cloud (AWS or GCP) with containers (Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Pulumi and Terraform).
Self-directed and comfortable with unsolved problems: You research options and make recommendations doing your best work when the problem is real and the constraints are hard. You leverage and delegate to AI treating modern AI tools as a core part of how you work handing off tasks to AI agents to use them as a force-multiplier.
Benefits
Paid holidays
18 days PTO PTO accrual increase based on tenure
Medical Dental & Vision coverage
Short term and long term disability
Equity Packages
401k with matching
Paid Parental Leave
Equal Opportunity Employer
Zanskar is an equal-opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal state and local fair employment practice laws.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Equal Opportunity Employer Zanskar is an equal-opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practice laws.