Full-Time
Senior Data Engineer
The Weather Company
501-1,000 employees
Enterprise weather data and insights provider.
No salary listed
Atlanta, GA, USA
Hybrid
Hybrid work model.
Bachelor's, Master's
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- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field, or commensurate experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in Computer Science with a proven track record of successful projects.
- At least 5 years of experience operating and deploying solutions using AWS services including S3, EMR, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Athena, Glue, Kinesis, and MSK.
- At least 5 years of experience with Python, Scala, or Java.
- At least 5 years of experience with SQL.
- At least 5 years of experience with big data technologies such as Cassandra, Spark, Hadoop, Parquet, and Redash.
- Advanced proficiency in building data integrations using API and file-based protocols.
- Advanced proficiency with test-driven development and unit testing.
- Experience with Git version control or similar.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline patterns and best practices.
- Proficiency with alerting and monitoring tools such as Grafana.
- Ability to learn new technologies and languages.
- Ability to prepare concise and clear process documentation.
- Ability to work closely and effectively with peer developers and on several active projects simultaneously, including leading small projects.
- Solid experience implementing highly available, scalable cloud solutions.
- Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Solid knowledge of functional programming languages and techniques, and object-oriented programming languages and techniques.
- Solid knowledge of concurrency, concurrent programming techniques, and distributed computing techniques.
- Knowledge and understanding of operating with data at large scale, including machine learning and data science concepts.
- Design and implement sophisticated software systems using object-oriented or functional programming techniques in Python, Scala, or Java.
- Participate in and adhere to professional software engineering practices using Agile software development, test-driven development, continuous integration, source code management with Git, Jira, and Stash.
- Maintain an advanced level of proficiency in Computer Science and Software Engineering knowledge.
- Mentor junior engineers in routine, less-complex tasks.
- Lead small projects.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
The Weather Company gathers and distributes precise, high-volume weather data and uses AI-powered analytics to turn it into actionable insights for businesses and consumers. It serves hundreds of enterprise customers across media, advertising, aviation, and other sectors, and reaches hundreds of millions of monthly users through The Weather Channel and Weather Underground. Its product combines reliable weather data with advanced technology to deliver tailored forecasts, alerts, and weather-driven decision support that can be integrated across digital platforms and enterprise systems. Unlike many competitors, it emphasizes privacy-friendly data handling, scale, and trusted reliability across multiple industries and large audiences. The company’s goal is to help people and businesses make more informed decisions and take timely actions based on weather, by providing scalable, accurate weather intelligence that can be embedded into products and workflows.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
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Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Redfin added Weather Company data to every July 2026 home listing, expanding monetization.
- Steller’s May 2026 integration turns weather.com city pages into travel-discovery inventory.
- 2025 and 2026 AI features, including pollen and snowfall forecasts, strengthen premium retention.
What critics are saying
- Built-in iPhone and Android forecasts can replace weather.com, collapsing traffic and ad revenue.
- AccuWeather, Fox Weather, and enterprise rivals pressure pricing across APIs, aviation, and media.
- Privacy scrutiny around location tracking and ad targeting threatens trust, lawsuits, and fines.
What makes The Weather Company unique
- MITRE’s April 2026 Weather 1K deal pushes The Weather Company toward 1-kilometer AI forecasting.
- United renewed March 2026 embeds Weather Company meteorologists and APIs into airline operations.
- weather.com and The Weather Channel reach hundreds of millions monthly, delivering unmatched consumer distribution.
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Benefits
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Hybrid Work Options
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Company Match
Family Planning Benefits
Company News
The Weather Channel app has launched an enhanced allergy experience featuring hyperlocal pollen forecasts and environmental insights to help users better understand seasonal symptoms. The free update includes neighbourhood-level pollen data at 5km x 5km resolution, powered by data provider Ambee. Key features include Weather Aggravator Insights, which analyses how weather conditions like wind or humidity affect airborne allergens, peak pollen tracking, daily comparisons to previous conditions, and 10 years of historical data. The app integrates pollen forecasts into standard five-day weather outlooks. Premium features launching later this summer will include subspecies details identifying specific tree pollens like cedar or oak, hourly pollen forecasts and radar layers, and an integrated symptom tracker. The enhanced experience is now available on iOS and Android.
The Weather Company and Steller have launched a collaboration integrating immersive travel videos into weather.com city pages, targeting travellers at the moment they search weather forecasts for out-of-town destinations. The partnership aims to transform local weather searches into a travel discovery platform for hundreds of millions of monthly users. The integration surfaces creator-led destination videos when users check forecasts, enabling Destination Marketing Organisations to reach potential travellers before they turn to search engines or social platforms. Steller's embedded videos connect directly to trip booking via the Steller platform. The experience is now live in select markets on weather.com. In return, Steller app users will receive forecasts powered by The Weather Channel brand, creating what the companies call a bi-directional ecosystem combining weather data with travel content.
MITRE and The Weather Company have announced a strategic collaboration to advance AI-based weather forecasting using high-resolution data. The Weather Company will integrate MITRE's Weather 1K dataset into its Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting system to develop more accurate forecasts. Weather 1K provides weather estimations across the continental United States with one-kilometre spatial resolution in 10-minute increments, totalling roughly seven petabytes of data. The dataset was developed using MITRE's Federal AI Sandbox, powered by NVIDIA technology with 248 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. The Weather Company aims to develop the world's first one-kilometre AI-based forecasting system, enabling hyper-local predictions for agriculture, aviation, wildland fire management and extreme weather events. The collaboration will continue to advance weather forecasting solutions for industry and government applications.
The Weather Company is now nearly 4 times more likely to be the most accurate forecaster,1 combining AI innovation, proprietary technologies, and human expertise to deliver precise weather intelligence for people and businesses worldwideATLANTA, June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Weather Company©, which includes The Weather Channel© digital properties, has once again been determined to be "the overall most accurate provider globally" by ForecastWatch, the premier organization for evaluating weather forecast accuracy. In the latest comprehensive report, Global and Regional Weather Forecast Accuracy Overview, 2021-2024 , The Weather Company has maintained its position as the world's most accurate forecaster every year since this type of analysis began in 2017, with its lead continuing to expand significantly compared to other providers included in the report, such as Microsoft and Accuweather.The Weather Company has widened its lead as the world's most accurate forecaster, according to a new comprehensive report. It's now nearly 4x more likely to be the most accurate than other providers, up from 3x in 2022. Empowering critical decisions for people and businesses, this unprecedented leadership in accuracy is due to a unique blend of advanced proprietary technology and AI, together with the human expertise of 100+ meteorologists."As weather patterns continue to evolve and become more impactful globally, forecast accuracy is a critical foundation to what people and businesses need to make meaningful decisions," said Rohit Agarwal, CEO of The Weather Company. "More than just a number, a reliable forecast can empower you to live your best life, rain or shine, wind or snow. Especially as we focus on translating that forecast to deliver more personalized, relevant weather intelligence through our consumer digital platforms and enterprise products."Growing Accuracy Gap in an Era of Climate VolatilityThe report data showed that the accuracy gap has widened substantially – The Weather Company (noted as The Weather Channel in the report) is now nearly 4 times more likely to be the most accurate forecaster than the next best forecasting service, up from over 3 times in 2021 and 2 times in 2017
Next-generation Weather Prediction Technology Will Lead to a Better Understanding of Forecast Uncertainty, Promising Up to 15% Improvement in Forecast AccuracyATLANTA, March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Weather Company today announced it is now the first operational user of the Joint Effort for Data Assimilation Integration (JEDI), a groundbreaking weather forecasting framework developed by the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) and hosted by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). This milestone implementation underscores The Weather Company's commitment to pushing the boundaries of weather science and technology, especially with probabilistic forecasting to help improve decision making based on weather