University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Data Access Engineer
🇺🇸 Chapel Hill, NC
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $51K - $100K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ January 5th, 2026
Edtech.com's Summary
- Develop and scale data access pipelines for the Argus Array telescope's large-scale astronomical data.
- Integrate with cloud services, distributed storage networks, and GPU-accelerated pipelines.
- Lead production deployment of streaming alert distribution systems for real-time astronomical phenomena notifications.
- Oversee periodic releases of extensive light curve datasets ensuring data versioning and integrity.
- Contribute to API-first user interfaces for internal quality assurance and public access.
- Requires advanced Python expertise (5+ years) and experience designing high-throughput distributed message systems (3+ years).
- Experience with software development lifecycle including version control, documentation, and testing is essential.
- Preferred knowledge includes cloud-based relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka) and time-series databases geared towards astronomical datasets.
- Minimum qualification is a relevant post-Baccalaureate degree or equivalent experience with demonstrated independent research productivity.
- Position offers a hiring range between $51,000 and $100,000 per year.
