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Conservation Metrics | Lead Data Platform Engineer | REMOTE (US) Indigenous People around the world are working tirelessly to protect and manage their territories under mounting external threats. Conservation Metrics is a small, mission-driven company co-creating an open-source data platform designed to support territorial monitoring and Indigenous data sovereignty. It combines remote sensing products (maps, alerts, and change detection), mobile data collection tools, secure data warehousing, LLM-assisted analysis tools, and governed data access to allow Indigenous communities to explore, analyze, and summarize their information. Lead position: You will own architecture and data infrastructure to support Indigenous data sovereignty and secure collaboration. We are looking for someone who can work through hard technical trade-offs and commit. In addition, Leads at Conservation Metrics are hands-on, writing production code and reviewing PRs to stay close to the system. Tech: PostgreSQL, CapRover (Docker Swarm), Identity Systems (Auth0) on self-hosted, single-VM stacks. Data Sovereignty & Governance are big here. See link for example 1st year projects and how to apply: https://conservationmetrics.com/careers/lead-data-platform-e...