Funga · 9 hours ago
Data Infrastructure Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $150K/yr
4+ years expFunga is a public benefit corporation focused on addressing the climate crisis through innovative solutions involving forest fungal networks. The Data Infrastructure Engineer role involves building scalable data solutions, managing large-scale datasets, and optimizing data infrastructure to support scientific and operational teams.
Environmental EngineeringForestry
Responsibilities
Architect Core Systems & Cloud
Own the Stack: Architect and maintain our central storage (PostgreSQL/PostGIS, SQLite) and cloud environment (AWS/GCP), leveraging ECS, Lambda, and S3
Modern DevOps: Standardize environments using Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code to automate the testing and deployment of data services
Scale for Performance: Optimize data models and database performance management for extensibility as our genomic and geospatial inputs scale
Manage the Data Lifecycle
Build Lean Ingest: Design and automate scalable ELT/ETL pipelines for genomic, geospatial, and tabular data from sources like Survey123, ArcGIS, and Asana
QA/QC at Scale: Build automated validation pipelines to ensure data integrity and version control from the moment it hits our system
Enable the Mission
Internal Enablement: Support scientists and operational teams by designing the data models that power internal modeling workflows, dashboards, and reporting
System Connectivity: Develop lightweight APIs and connectors to sync data between our core infrastructure and downstream applications (e.g. Asana, ArcGIS, and internal dashboards)
Qualification
Required
4+ years of experience in Data or Backend Engineering, with a track record of building production data systems from the ground up
Database expertise: Deep SQL proficiency. You understand indexing, partitioning, and optimizing Postgres for high performance
Cloud Infrastructure: Significant experience building, managing, and optimizing data services within AWS or GCP (e.g. ECS, Lambda, RDS) with a focus on cost-effective, maintainable architecture
Modern DevOps & Python: Proficiency in production-grade Python and modern DevOps practices, including containerization (Docker), CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure monitoring
Data fluency: Experience handling large-scale Parquet, Avro, binary, or similar data types. Familiarity with geospatial data types and tools (PostGIS, GDAL) is a plus
Product mindset: You treat internal teams as your customers. You are driven to build solutions that serve and accelerate internal teams' work
Pragmatic: You prefer simple, mature, composable tools over heavy, managed platforms, and you have a bias for creating value now versus perfection later
Benefits
Participate in healthcare benefits
Employee equity programs
Equity in our fast-growing startup
A flexible time off policy
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
A wellness reimbursement program
Company
Funga
Funga uses the forest fungal microbiome to improve forestry outcomes and address the climate crisis.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$9.1MKey Investors
Azolla Ventures
2024-12-05Undisclosed· $5.06M
2024-03-01Series Unknown
2023-01-05Seed· $4.04M
Leadership Team
Colin Averill
Founder and CEO
Lauren Serota
Co-Founder & Advisor
Recent News
2025-02-17
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