Senior Software Engineer — Spatial Analytics & Open Formats
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Job overview
CARTO is hiring a Senior Software Engineer — Spatial Analytics & Open Formats. CARTO seeks a senior software engineer to lead the evolution of its spatial analytics Toolbox and Workflows, defining framework direction, deploying capabilities across diverse engines, and integrating open formats like GeoParquet and Iceberg, while shaping technical strategy and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team.
Key focus areas include Define Toolbox framework evolution, Deploy analytics capabilities across heterogeneous engines, and Integrate open formats into the platform.
Important skills include BigQuery, snowflake, Databricks, Cloud Computing, Data Engineering, and Quality Assurance. Preferred (not required): Spatial Analytics, Redshift, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
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Full job description
Everything happens somewhere — which is why spatial analytics is fundamental to companies trying to understand the "where" and the "why" of their business. CARTO is the world's leading cloud-native spatial analysis platform, trusted by data scientists, analysts, and developers from global brands like IKEA, Coca-Cola, T-Mobile, Swiss Re, and AXA to run scalable spatial analysis directly on their cloud data warehouses and lakehouses.
Built by a diverse team of over 150 people across the US, APAC, and Europe (backed by Insight Partners, Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Earlybird Ventures), CARTO is fundamentally changing how location data is analyzed — making it an integrated, accessible, AI-native part of modern data infrastructure. The role Spatial analytics is moving out of the GIS silo. It's moving into the warehouse, then into the lakehouse, then into Iceberg and open formats, and increasingly into agentic workflows where the consumer is no longer always a human. We're looking for an engineer who has been part of building that shift, to come help us lead where it goes next at CARTO.
This role sits across CARTO's Analytics Toolbox and Workflows — the two surfaces through which our spatial analytics runs on partner engines (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, Postgres, Oracle) and, increasingly, on open formats consumed by external agents and applications. You'll define how the Toolbox framework evolves, how analytics capabilities are deployed across heterogeneous engines, and how CARTO plugs into the cloud-native geospatial stack — GeoParquet, STAC, Arrow, Iceberg, RaQuet, and what comes next.
We don't think of this as a feature-shipping role. We think of it as a vision-and-execution role: someone who can write the strategy doc and own the PR that proves it works. Where you'd sit You'd work alongside the Workflows team (backend, frontend, data engineering, QA — six people today, growing) and the broader Spatial Analytics group, with significant scope to shape the technical direction of both.
This is a remote-first role open to candidates based anywhere in EU or USA.
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