Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CARTO is the world's leading cloud-native spatial analysis platform, trusted by global brands for scalable spatial analysis. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the evolution of their Analytics Toolbox framework and partner-engine SQL strategy, focusing on integrating spatial analytics into various cloud-native environments.
Responsibilities
- Shape how spatial analytics is packaged, versioned, and pushed down into partner engines — and what it looks like when the consumer is an LLM agent, not a UI
- Set the direction for how CARTO writes once and runs everywhere, without losing warehouse-native performance
- Define what spatial-first Iceberg looks like — for CARTO and for the ecosystem
- Represent CARTO externally and help move the standards forward in OGC working groups, the Cloud Native Geospatial community, FOSS4G, conference talks, RFCs
- Help define the interface for AI agents calling into the Toolbox
Skills
- You've spent a serious chunk of your career in the cloud-native geospatial world
- You've built with — and ideally helped shape — some combination of DuckDB, GeoParquet, STAC, Arrow, Iceberg, point cloud formats, MobilityDB, or similar
- You know SQL at the engine level
- You can read an execution plan across BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, and Databricks
- You have a clear view on what each one does well and badly for spatial workloads — partitioning, clustering, file pruning, pushdown, cost
- You build with AI seriously
- You've shipped LLM-powered features in production
- You've worked with agentic patterns
- You have a point of view on what this changes for analytics
- You're visible in the community — a FOSS4G or CNG talk, a maintained OSS project, a standards working group, a blog post people keep citing
- You're a low-ego technical leader
- You set direction by being right and being persuasive, not by being loud
- You give direct feedback in PRs, ask good questions when you don't know something, and make the engineers around you better
- You're comfortable shipping production code — this isn't an architect-only role — in a cloud-native, serverless environment (GCP or AWS)
- TypeScript / Node.js experience is a plus since that's our backend, but it isn't the primary signal we're hiring on
Benefits
- Annual bonus of up to 10% based on company objectives
- Access to our Employee Stock Options Plan
- Private Medical Insurance
- Flexible compensation
- Education stipend
- Remote work stipend
- English classes
Company Overview
Carto is a platform that turns spatial data into an efficient delivery route, better behavioral marketing, and strategic store placements. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.carto.com.