Backend Geospatial Software Engineer

About this role

Backend Geospatial Software Engineer

Chesapeake Technology, Inc.
| Remote — US

About Chesapeake Technology

Chesapeake Technology 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 and bathymetric datasets
- Architect and optimize AWS infrastructure (S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, SQS) for compute-intensive workloads
- Develop
edge computing pipelines
for onboard AUV data analysis, enabling real-time target detection and adaptive survey planning
- Design systems that bridge edge and cloud — syncing, validating, and enriching AUV-collected data post-mission
- Develop APIs that serve processed geospatial data to the web-based frontend
- Integrate ML/AI models for automated bottom tracking, target recognitio...