Data Engineer (Remote)
Orion is a seed-stage VC-backed startup building site-level risk intelligence for enterprises and governments operating in volatile environments. We provide real-time insights by fusing data from diverse sources—including geospatial, economic, and open-source intelligence—into decision-ready tools. We're a small, fast-moving team solving hard technical problems with real-world impact.
We're hiring an experienced Data Engineer to help design and build the data systems that power our platform. This role is hands-on, working closely with our CTO and alongside our founding engineers on critical infrastructure: ingesting, processing, and serving complex, high-volume data for analytics, AI models, and operational intelligence.
What You'll Do:
* Architect and develop robust data pipelines for spatiotemporal and structured intelligence data
* Build ETL workflows in Python, transforming data from diverse APIs and sources—including web crawlers and real-time feeds
* Maintain systems for geospatial processing (e.g., H3, GIS) and spatiotemporal modeling
* Ensure reliability, traceability, and observability in production systems (bonus for Honeycomb experience)
* Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers and product teams to support ML models, analytics, and visualizations
* Contribute to the design of scalable, efficient backend services for data handling and delivery
What We're Looking For:
* Strong experience in data engineering with
Python, Rust, Go
* Proven ability to design, build, and maintain ETL pipelines at scale
* Familiarity with geospatial data and spatiotemporal processing
* Experience integrating data from APIs and unstructured sources, including web scraping
* Comfort with observability, debugging, and monitoring distributed data systems
* Exposure to AI/ML workflows from a data infrastructure perspective
* A builder's mindset—comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment
* Experience with managing a team
* Experience with delivery
Bonus Points For:
* Real-time or event-driven data processing experience
* Experience with GraphQL, REST, or API integrations
* Familiarity with frontend data visualizations or geospatial mapping libraries
We're moving fast with real users. If you've built serious systems, love working at the data frontier, and want your work to make a real impact, shoot me an email and I'll prioritize the call.
3 interviews max; 1 screening, 1 with CTO, 1 vibecheck.
We offer competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and a pretty awesome team of people to work with.