Platform Engineer

Vortexa was founded to solve the immense information gap that exists in the energy industry. By using massive amounts of new satellite data and pioneering work in artificial intelligence, Vortexa creates an unprecedented view on the global seaborne energy flows in real-time, bringing transparency and efficiency to the energy markets and society as a whole.

The Challenge

Ingesting data from multiple external sources at hundreds of rich data points per second, moving terabytes of data while processing it in real-time, running complex prediction and forecasting AI models, and coupling their output into a hybrid human-machine data refinement process, all while presenting the results through a low-latency SaaS platform used globally, is a significant engineering challenge. This requires a reliable, stable, fault-tolerant infrastructure capable of withstanding varied use cases by data analysts, scientists, industry experts, and end-users. Fast product iteration cycles dema...