Lead Data Platform Engineer

Indigenous People around the world are working tirelessly to protect and manage their territories under mounting external threats. Conservation Metrics is a small, mission-driven company co-creating an open-source data platform designed to support territorial monitoring and Indigenous data sovereignty. It combines remote sensing products (maps, alerts, and change detection), mobile data collection tools, secure data warehousing, LLM-assisted analysis tools, and governed data access to allow Indigenous communities to explore, analyze, and summarize their information. Lead position: You will own architecture and data infrastructure to support Indigenous data sovereignty and secure collaboration. We are looking for someone who can work through hard technical trade-offs and commit. In addition, Leads at Conservation Metrics are hands-on, writing production code and reviewing PRs to stay close to the system. Tech: PostgreSQL, CapRover (Docker Swarm), Identity Systems (Auth0) on self-hosted,