Software Engineer - Data Production

Software Engineer (Data Production Team)

San Francisco, New York, Or Kansas City

Replica is a privacy-centric urban data platform that delivers critical insights about the built environment. With better data, human-context, and an intuitive design, Replica helps public and private sectors make informed, effective, and responsive decisions.

Our platform models travel behavior over time to show how people across the country live, move, and work. This data is used by planners, scientists, analysts, and policymakers who are working to make our cities more sustainable, equitable, and resilient. We contextualize hard choices so that our clients understand the trade-offs surrounding their decisions. Whether for a city planner increasing public transit to underserved neighborhoods or for a grocery chain evaluating where to open a new location, Replica enables cities and businesses to make more informed, people-centered decisions.

We spun out of Alphabet in 2019 when we secured series A funding from venture firms such as Innovation Endeavors, Firebrand Ventures, and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Our series B round was led by Founders Fund in 2021. Today, we are a team of 38 employees both working remotely and from our offices in San Francisco, New York, and Kansas City. 

Our data is used to make decisions affecting the physical places where we work, study, and live. These places are complex and deeply human. This responsibility necessitates providing transparency, pursuing equity, and preserving privacy. We are committed to bringing together a diverse workforce and creating an environment of inclusion. We value our differences and we encourage all to apply. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

The Team

The Data Production team is made up of urbanist-minded engineers who are passionate about evolving our product to address critical economic, equity, and sustainability challenges. The team designs, implements and maintains the building blocks and reusable components that power Replica’s data production and simulation pipelines. Most of the team is based in the Bay Area and New York, but we work with cross-functional teams in Kansas City, and serve customers across North America.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the data infrastructure and services that are the foundation of Replica’s software.
• Design and build the ingestion, processing and delivery framework to power upcoming real-time traffic products.
• Collaborate with Product, R&D, and Data Management & Procurement teams to implement and deploy data products at nationwide scale. Products include Trends (a weekly release of economic and mobility data), Places (a seasonal, high-fidelity mobility simulation), Scenario (an on-demand mobility simulation and forecasting t