Senior Data Engineer

About the role

Company & Mission Overview:

Our mission: We exist to connect climate and financial risk.

Who we are: First Street is the standard for Climate Risk Financial Modeling. For over a decade, we’ve been translating climate risk into decision-useful financial outcomes for investors, businesses, communities, and property owners worldwide. With backing from world-class firms, including Innovation Endeavors, Galvanize, General Catalyst, and others, our team has raised millions to change how the global economy thinks about climate change.

Read more about our culture here https://pitch.com/v/first-street-culture-deck---public-6sv4i5 and see what Climate Risk Financial Modeling is all about here https://youtu.be/GLTGXKwJlRI.

Our data: We’ve assembled leading climate scientists and economists to develop transparent, peer-reviewed methodologies to calculate the past, present, and future climate risk for properties and asset classes spanning real estate, infrastructure, and companies. Using physics-based deterministic models, we predict the likelihood of floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and other hazards at any location on Earth, along with associated damage and downtime.

Our customers: We aim to incorporate climate risk data into every financial decision made today. We are relied on every day by:

- Institutional investors like Norges Bank Investment Management and Blackstone.

- Banking enterprises, including Bank of America and Fifth Third.

- Government bodies ranging from Fannie Mae to the US State of Connecticut.

- Millions of everyday users on Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com http://Realtor.com, Homes.com http://Homes.com, and more.

Come join us and use your talents to change the world.

Team & Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be someone who deeply cares about the environment, loves information technology, and appreciates the importance of data for the success of the First Street mission. They will assist in the ingestion of climate risk and ancillary data from First Street modelers and data partners, develop data pipelines, query geospatial databases, calculate applicable statistics, implement Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes, utilize geographical imagery, and ensure that databases and pipelines coordinate and synchronize with APIs, and web services. This individual’s expertise and leadership will enable all members of the Data Operations team to be successful in their roles.

What you’ll do:

- Provide technical support in the processing, analysis, and interpretation of geospatial observations and modeling data.

- Develop and implement processes for processing large volumes of hazard prediction data to improve risk assessment quality and accuracy.

- Plan, execute and workflows on local and cloud-based environments, using technologies such as GDAL, PostgreSQL, Python, Spark