Platform Engineer; Software

Platform Engineer (Software) About Big Geo

Big Geo is the Spatial Cloud. We help companies manage and access the world’s spatial data. Any size, any slice, any insight. Delivered in seconds.

We’re building something that hasn’t existed before: a new layer of the internet where the “where” and “when” behind every decision is instantly clear, programmable, and actionable. Our platform removes the complexity that has kept spatial data locked in silos for decades, and replaces it with speed, precision, and control.

We’re a Calgary‑based company, early and moving fast, with real customers, real infrastructure, and a clear point of view on where the world is going.

Most companies are spatially blind. They know what their data says, but not where or when things actually happen. That gap costs real money, creates real risk, and limits what AI can actually do in the physical world. Big Geo exists to close that gap. We’re not building another tool. We’re building the rails that connect the planet’s moving data to the systems that run the world.

That’s a big problem, and it takes people who care about doing things right, not just fast.

People build here because:

• The problem is real and the category is open. We’re not competing for the middle of an existing market. We’re defining a new one. Your work shapes what the category becomes.
• Your fingerprints are on the architecture. We’re at the stage where the decisions you make today become the foundation tomorrow. What you ship matters.
• We run on clarity, not politics. We move with purpose. No bureaucratic drag, just a team that agrees on the mission and gets to work.
• You’ll grow fast because the problems are hard. Spatial data at scale is a genuinely difficult domain. If you want to be stretched, you’ll be stretched.
• We’re building for longevity. We’re not chasing hype cycles. We’re building infrastructure, the kind that compounds in value over time and earns the trust of the companies that depend on it.

Big Geo is hiring a Platform Engineer to build and operate the core infrastructure that powers the Spatial Cloud. This is a high‑ownership role for someone who wants their engineering decisions to be felt in production, by real customers, on real workloads, every single day.

You will design, implement, and maintain the distributed systems that let spatial data be ingested, processed, and delivered reliably r work ensures the Spatial Cloud operates as durable, high‑performance infrastructure that teams, applications, and AI systems can trust to run the decisions that matter.

You will partner closely with engineering, data, and product to keep the platform reliable, scalable, and easy to build on as datasets grow, workloads intensify, and new product capabilities ship. Platform Engineers are the people who turn Big Geo’s architecture into production‑grade infrastructure.

This is not a maintenance role. This is a build role. You will own systems end to end, ship meaningful changes quickly, and shape the technical foundation that the rest of the company builds on top of.

Platform Infrastructure

• Design and implement scalable, distributed infrastructure that powers the Spatial Cloud across ingestion, storage, compute, and delivery.
• Build and operate distributed services that manage large spatial datasets and high‑volume compute workloads.
• Keep platform systems performant under real production load, not just benchmark load.
• Contribute to architecture decisions that shape how the platform scales over the next three to five years.

Reliability and Operations

• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability systems that give engineers real visibility into the platform.
• Participate in on‑call rotation, incident response, and post‑incident reviews that turn outages into permanent fixes.
• Maintain high availability and operational stability across services that customers rely on.
• Define and uphold SLOs, error budgets, and reliability practices that scale with the team.

Developer Platform

• Build internal tools, libraries, and platform services that make every engineer at Big Geo faster and safer.
• Support the APIs…