Everything happens somewhere - which is why spatial analytics is fundamental to companies trying to understand the “where” and the “why” of their business. CARTO is the world's leading cloud-native spatial analysis platform, built to break down the silos of traditional GIS. Trusted by data scientists, analysts, and developers from global brands such as IKEA, Coca-Cola, T-Mobile, Swiss Re, and AXA, CARTO enables organizations to run scalable spatial analysis directly on their cloud data warehouse. Providing insights for critical use cases like site selection, catastrophe modeling, network planning, and supply chain optimization.

Built by a diverse team of over 150 people across the US, APAC, and Europe, CARTO's cloud-native Agentic GIS platform provides a modern, future-proof alternative to legacy GIS. Offering a powerful suite of tools for visualization, analytics, and application development, our platform is redefining how companies work with location data. CARTO (backed by Insight Partners, Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Earlybird Ventures, among others) is fundamentally changing the way location data is analyzed, making it an integrated and accessible part of modern business intelligence.

What are we looking for

We're looking for a senior backend engineer who thrives on hard infrastructure problems and has the experience to own them independently — from design through production.

You'll be joining the APIs team, a small group of engineers responsible for the core platform that powers everything CARTO's customers build. The team works directly on top of the major cloud data warehouses — BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, and Oracle — building the high-performance, low-latency layer that makes geospatial analysis possible at scale without ever moving data out of our customers' own systems.

This is not a role where you'll be handed a spec and asked to implement it. We're looking for someone who asks hard questions early, spots architectural problems before they become production incidents, and has a point of view on how things should be built. You'll work closely with data warehouse engineering teams at Google, Snowflake, and Databricks, and contribute to open-source geospatial communities that the wider industry depends on.

If you're energized by working at scale — billions of API calls, terabytes of geospatial data, customers who depend on the platform being fast and reliable — and you want to do it alongside a team that takes engineering craft seriously, we'd love to hear from you.

Location

This is a remote-first role, open to candidates based anywhere in Spain. We have offices in Madrid and Seville if you prefer to work in person or want a place to collaborate occasionally, but there's no expectation to use them.

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