Overview
We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you will serve as a technical leader responsible for designing and implementing a robust, scalable data platform that enhances our scientific capabilities and has a measurable climate impact. You will establish best practices and set technical direction for your team, partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the platform adapts to meet the needs of a rapidly-evolving industry.
This is a high-impact, high-ownership role for an engineer who thrives on solving complex challenges and can operate with significant autonomy while influencing the broader technical roadmap.
Responsibilities- Lead the design, implementation, and expansion of the company's data platform, including ingestion pipelines, data warehouse/lakehouse architecture, transformation layers, and data serving infrastructure.
- Define and champion engineering standards, best practices, and architectural patterns for data infrastructure across the organization.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to understand data needs and translate them into scalable, reliable platform capabilities.
- Drive technical decisions on tooling, frameworks, and vendor selection for the data stack (e.g., orchestration, storage, transformation, observability).
- Mentor and level up engineers on the team, providing technical guidance and code review with a focus on quality and long-term maintainability.
- Proactively identify scalability, reliability, and performance bottlenecks and lead efforts to address them.
- Partner with stakeholders across engineering, data science, and business teams to ensure the platform supports current and future analytical and operational needs.
- Contribute to organizational planning and hiring, helping grow the data engineering function.
- Extensive experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or a related discipline, with a track record of building and scaling data infrastructure across multiple products or business domains.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing end-to-end data platforms, including batch and/or streaming pipelines, data warehouse or lakehouse architectures, and transformation frameworks.
- Deep expertise in at least one major cloud data ecosystem (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with modern data stack tooling (e.g., dbt, Spark, Airflow/Dagster, Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks, Kafka).
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in Python and/or Scala/Java for data systems.
- Ability to operate at both the strategic architectural level and the hands-on implementation level.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction and align cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience building data platforms in a greenfield or high-growth environment.
- Familiarity with data mesh, data fabric, or federated data architecture patterns.
- Experience with data governance, data cataloging, and metadata management frameworks.
- Prior work in climate tech, sustainability, or a mission-driven organization.
Salary Range
$184,000-$225,000 a year
- Comprehensive nationwide medical, dental, and vision coverage. See a preview of our coverage here.
- Time off as needed: Flexible vacation policy and ten company-wide holidays, plus annual winter break between Christmas and New Year's
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental and family leave with no tenure requirement
- Remote-friendly work culture with annual company-wide retreats
- Reimbursement for your work-from-home setup and monthly work-from-home stipend
Skills Required
- Extensive experience in data engineering or related discipline
- Experience designing and implementing end-to-end data platforms
- Deep expertise in at least one major cloud data ecosystem
- Proficiency in Python and/or Scala/Java for data systems
What We Do
We believe that applying science is the only way to solve the climate crisis. Scientific expertise is critical to both effective and efficient carbon management – yet it can be hard to access outside of the academic and public sectors. New research and technologies emerge every day in our nascent industry and it can be difficult to know what actions to take to achieve your climate goals. Carbon Direct is working to address these challenges by: building a world-class science team of carbon experts, analyzing existing and proposed policy regulations, applying science with real-world market experience, and translating our expertise into accessible software solutions.
Why Work With Us
We recognize that teams with diverse backgrounds and different experiences are powerful. Bringing together a variety of perspectives only enhances how we can effectively address the climate crisis. Together, we are creating an environment where everyone is celebrated and anyone can succeed.
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