About Blumen

Blumen is building software to streamline permitting, compliance, and regulatory hurdles for project developers and EPC companies powering renewables and infrastructure development int he US.

Initial traction for our permitting platform is very high, and we are pursuing many downstream opportunities as we perfect the platform. We’re looking for motivated players to continue to build our world-class platform and help developers breeze through the regulatory process, soup to nuts.

What we're looking for

As a Data Engineer you will work directly with the the Director of Geospatial and own data engineering for the soul of the system. You will have the opportunity to be a critical contributor to a first-of-its-kind system enabling the energy transition at scale and solve challenging engineering problems in the process.

Responsibilities

• Clean, standardize, explore, and catalogue public and proprietary datasets before they enter an automated ingestion pipeline

• Build on a proprietary join system by creating unique keys for disparate datasets

• Refine and improve the data ingestion and analysis pipeline for vector, raster, and real-time geospatial data

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience building and shipping complex data pipelines in an enterprise setting

• Demonstrated experience working with messy SQL querying, data standardization, and schema design

• Personable and excited to work closely with customers in natural resources industries

🧰 Stack: GCP, BigQuery, PostGIS, Python,

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated interest in energy development, land use, mineral exploration or similar topics

• Past experience with government data sources (BLM, EPA, USFS, DOE, NOAA, BOEM, etc.)

• Taste for adventure

Pay

• This role will start as a contractor role, with opportunities for full-time for high performers

• $35-50 / hour

Why join us?

• Meaningful equity with high upside (early stage)

• Unlimited PTO and 11 paid holidays

• Full health coverage (medical, dental, and vision)

• Daily office provided lunches and dinners

• Remote/hybrid-friendly work environment

• Paid parental leave

• 24/7 office access at our beautiful Jackson Square, San Francisco office

Our values

1. Put yourself in the customer’s shoes. We care deeply about serving our customers above all else.

2. No job is too small. Details matter, even if nobody will ever see them.

3. Every problem is an opportunity. Any solution that is clever, difficult to reproduce, or takes serious guts is an opportunity to widen our moat.

4. Own the problem. Not your solution. Best idea wins.

5. It doesn’t get easier. We just get faster. There is no finish line. Every day is a step toward compounding success. This is a marathon toward excellence.