
Geospatial Cloud Engineer (AWS)
Responsibilities
Solafune develops AI and cloud-processing technologies for satellite and geospatial data. We are looking for an engineer who can bridge cloud architecture, data processing, and geospatial workloads.The role will focus on turning remote-sensing and AI algorithms into scalable production systems on AWS. You will work closely with Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Data Engineers to design pipelines capable of processing large volumes of satellite imagery while maintaining good performance, reliability, and cloud cost efficiency.This is not a traditional ETL/Data Warehouse role. A significant part of the work involves compute-intensive geospatial processing, AWS architecture, workflow orchestration, infrastructure automation, scalability, monitoring, and cost optimization.
🌐This position is eligible to full-remote workers within the APAC region.
【Responsibilities】
»Design, build, and operate scalable AWS pipelines for satellite imagery and large geospatial datasets.
»Architect and optimize cloud infrastructure for batch and asynchronous geospatial processing, with a focus on performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.
»Productionize AI/ML and remote-sensing algorithms into reliable, automated processing workflows.
»Build and maintain pipelines using AWS services such as S3, AWS Batch, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, Lambda, EventBridge, and CloudWatch.
»Design efficient parallel-processing strategies for large imagery datasets, including job orchestration, retries, failure recovery, monitoring, and intermediate data management.
»Implement Infrastructure as Code, automated deployments, and production-grade monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards.
»Collaborate with Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Data Engineering teams to integrate processing workflows with user-facing applications, APIs, and the broader geospatial data platform.
»Evaluate new AWS services and cloud-processing architectures as workload and platform requirements evolve.
Required Skills
【Required Skills & Experience】
»3+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, DevOps/SRE, or a related field.
»Strong production experience with AWS and Python.
»Strong experience with Docker and containerized workloads.
»Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK).
»Experience designing distributed or large-scale data-processing systems.
»Familiarity with geospatial technologies such as GeoTIFF, COG, STAC, GDAL, Rasterio, GeoPandas, Xarray, or PostGIS.
Preferred Skills and Experience
【Preferred Skills & Experience】
»Expertise in processing satellite imagery or remote-sensing data at scale.
»Experience with spatial tiling, mosaicking, reprojection, masking, or AOI-based processing.
»Familiarity with AWS Spot Instances, Savings Plans, S3 lifecycle policies, or FinOps practices.
»Experience with Kubernetes or distributed computing frameworks such as Dask, Ray, or Spark.
»Ability to use SQS, Kafka, Kinesis, or similar messaging/streaming systems.
»Experience with GPU-based or compute-intensive workloads.
»Familiarity with ML/MLOps workflows.
Benefits
Employee benefits available to Japan-based employees.
Salary
Compensation: Determined based on experience, skills, and location.
Work Conditions
Work Style
09:00 ~ 18:00 (Break: 12:00 ~ 13:00 )JST
Flexible Working Hours System
»Workdays: 5 days per week (Monday - Friday)
»Acceptable Working Hours: 5:00 AM – 10:00 PM (including a 60-minute break)
Hiring Process
【Other】
»Visa application support is available after 6 months for employees who wish to relocate to Japan.
»Relocation assistance may be available after 6 months, depending on individual circumstances and performance, and is not guaranteed.
Location
🌐Remote / Japan preferred This role is remote-friendly within the APAC region, with candidates based in Japan especially welcome.
Job Type
Full time