<div><span style="font-size:12pt;">Role Overview </span></div><div><b style="font-size:10pt;">Title</b><span style="font-size:10pt;">: Staff Software Engineer</span></div><div><b style="font-size:10pt;">Hours</b><span style="font-size:10pt;">: Full-Time, Salaried</span></div><div><b style="font-size:10pt;">Location</b><span style="font-size:10pt;">: Salt Lake City, UT, Hybrid</span></div><div><b style="font-size:10pt;">BenefitsEligible</b><span style="font-size:10pt;">: Yes</span></div><div><b style="font-size:10pt;">Manager</b><span style="font-size:10pt;">: Chief Platform Officer</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size:12pt;">Mission – Why we exist and why we need you </b></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;">Geothermal energy is the most abundant renewable energy source in the world. There is 2,300 times more energy in geothermal heat in the ground than in oil, gas, coal, and methane combined. However, historically it’s been hard to find and expensive to develop. At Zanskar, we’re using better technology to find and develop new geothermal resources in order to make geothermal a cheap and vital contributor to a carbon-free electrical grid. We are revolutionizing the exploration process, setting new industry standards for discovery rates and finding new prospects at an unprecedented scale. To reduce risk and improve outcomes, we rely on novel software and machine learning modeling.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;">The Staff Software Engineer will play a critical role developing and maintaining Zanskar’s growing software engineering systems to make scaled geothermal energy a reality. A successful candidate will be a trusted leader who can design and deliver reliable full-stack systems for both short-term goals and long-term growth. This is a technical leadership role, demanding the ability to assess technical systems, recommend evolutions, and then deliver improved software systems to accelerate the work of others around them. As such, strong communication skills are essential, as the Staff Software Engineer will collaborate with research, engineering, geoscience, land analysis, and field teams. Startup experience is a strong plus.</span></div><div><br></div><br><br><h3>Competencies – What we’re looking for</h3><ul><li>Minimum 8+ years experience in software engineering in a business environment.</li><li>Experience leading data engineering projects with high independence.</li></ul><h3>Proven technical skills: </h3><ul><li>Proven experience with the architecture, design and implementation of software systems to accelerate the work of other colleagues. Experience doing this in a research environment is a strong plus.</li><li>Proven experience developing and maintaining cloud engineering solutions. Our stack is built on GCP, in particular Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, and Compute Engine.</li><li>Proven experience delivering full-stack software solutions, including back-end APIs, data and orchestration systems, distributed cloud computing, and the occasional front-end web application. Event-driven architecture experience is a plus.</li><li>Proven experience with software engineering best practices: CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar), version control (GitHub), containerization (Docker) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).</li><li>Familiarity maintaining and evolving databases (Snowflake and Postgres preferred)</li><li>Fluency in Python and SQL are a bonus.</li></ul><h3>Location and Benefits</h3><ul><li>The position is based out of our headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is a hybrid position</li><li>Benefits include:</li><li>Paid holidays</li><li>15 days PTO + PTO accrual increase based on tenure</li><li>Medical, dental and vision coverage</li><li>401k </li><li>Stock options</li><li>Growth opportunities at a company with a direct impact in displacing carbon emissions</li></ul><br><div><b style="font-size:12pt;">Equal Opportunity Employer </b></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;">Zanskar is an equal-opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practice laws.</span></div>

<p>It is our mission to make geothermal power the most affordable form of widely-deployable, 24/7, carbon-free energy generation on the planet.&nbsp;</p>

Staff Software Engineer

<div><span>Role Overview&nbsp;</span></div><div><b>Title</b><span>: Staff Software Engineer</span></div><div><b>Hours</b><span>: Full-Time, Salaried</span></div><div><b>Location</b><span>: Salt Lake City, UT, Hybrid</span></div><div><b>BenefitsEligible</b><span>: Yes</span></div><div><b>Manager</b><span>: Chief Platform Officer</span></div><div><br></div><div><b>Mission – Why we exist and why we need you&nbsp;</b></div><div><span>Geothermal energy is the most abundant renewable energy source in the world. There is 2,300 times more energy in geothermal heat in the ground than in oil, gas, coal, and methane combined. However, historically it’s been hard to find and expensive to develop. At Zanskar, we’re using better technology to find and develop new geothermal resources in order to make geothermal a cheap and vital contributor to a carbon-free electrical grid. We are revolutionizing the exploration process, setting new industry standards for discovery rates and finding new prospects at an unprecedented scale. To reduce risk and improve outcomes, we rely on novel software and machine learning modeling.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span>The Staff Software Engineer will play a critical role developing and maintaining Zanskar’s growing software engineering systems to make scaled geothermal energy a reality. A successful candidate will be a trusted leader who can design and deliver reliable full-stack systems for both short-term goals and long-term growth. This is a technical leadership role, demanding the ability to assess technical systems, recommend evolutions, and then deliver improved software systems to accelerate the work of others around them. As such, strong communication skills are essential, as the Staff Software Engineer will collaborate with research, engineering, geoscience, land analysis, and field teams. Startup experience is a strong plus.</span></div><div><br></div><br><br><h3>Competencies – What we’re looking for</h3><ul><li>Minimum 8+ years experience in software engineering in a business environment.</li><li>Experience leading data engineering projects with high independence.</li></ul><h3>Proven technical skills: </h3><ul><li>Proven experience with the architecture, design and implementation of software systems to accelerate the work of other colleagues. Experience doing this in a research environment is a strong plus.</li><li>Proven experience developing and maintaining cloud engineering solutions. Our stack is built on GCP, in particular Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, and Compute Engine.</li><li>Proven experience delivering full-stack software solutions, including back-end APIs, data and orchestration systems, distributed cloud computing, and the occasional front-end web application. Event-driven architecture experience is a plus.</li><li>Proven experience with software engineering best practices: CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar), version control (GitHub), containerization (Docker) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).</li><li>Familiarity maintaining and evolving databases (Snowflake and Postgres preferred)</li><li>Fluency in Python and SQL are a bonus.</li></ul><h3>Location and Benefits</h3><ul><li>The position is based out of our headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is a hybrid position</li><li>Benefits include:</li><li>Paid holidays</li><li>15 days PTO + PTO accrual increase based on tenure</li><li>Medical, dental and vision coverage</li><li>401k&nbsp;</li><li>Stock options</li><li>Growth opportunities at a company with a direct impact in displacing carbon emissions</li></ul><br><div><b>Equal Opportunity Employer&nbsp;</b></div><div><span>Zanskar is an equal-opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practice laws.</span></div>

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