Backend Geospatial Engineer

Backend Geospatial Software Engineer Chesapeake Tech nology, Inc. | Remote — US About Chesapeake Tech nology Chesapeake Tech nology is a 25-year leader in marine survey software, developing SonarWiz — the industry-standard platform for processing sidescan sonar, sub-bottom profiler, bathymetry, and magnetometer data. We serve commercial survey companies, research institutions, government agencies, and defense customers worldwide. We are currently building a next-generation cloud-native platform that brings AI/ML-powered processing to the browser, along with edge computing capabilities for real-time AUV data analysis . The Role We're looking for a Backend Geospatial Software Engineer to architect and build the cloud processing engine powering our new platform. You'll work on large-scale geospatial data pipelines — ingesting, transforming, and serving sonar and bathymetric datasets — using modern Python-based scientific computing tools on AWS. You'll also help design lightweight edge processing solutions that run onboard autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for real-time sensor analysis and decision-making. High-impact role on a small, focused team where your work ships directly to production. What You'll Do Design and implement scalable backend services for cloud-based geospatial data processing Build distributed data pipelines using Dask and Xarray to process large multi-dimensional sonar datasets Architect and optimize AWS infrastructure (S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Step Functions