Staff software engineer, sustainability platform
About The Position
Watershed is an enterprise sustainability platform used by companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting, and drive decarbonization. We are seeking team members who are passionate about product development, dedicated to working hard at a mission-oriented startup, and eager to contribute to shaping the culture of a growing team. Watershed has offices in San Francisco, New York, Denver, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City, and remote team members across the US and Europe. This role is for a Staff Full-Stack Engineer within the Sustainability Platform (SusPlat) organization, which is responsible for Watershed's core measurement engine. The systems built by this group handle every customer footprint, sustainability report, and emissions insight generated by Watershed. SusPlat covers the entire data lifecycle, from collecting raw enterprise data and transforming it, to running emissions calculations, and making the results accessible for querying and action by customers and internal teams. This is a critical, high-impact role that enables Fortune 500 companies to understand their carbon emissions across vast and complex operational landscapes. The engineer will collaborate with product managers, designers, and climate scientists to develop technically sound and genuinely useful systems for sustainability professionals. Additionally, this role involves being a founding member of Watershed's Denver engineering team, contributing to the establishment of its culture, practices, and technical direction.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering industry experience across both front-end and back-end
- A track record of ownership, shipping end-to-end features, and high-impact projects
- Experience building data-intensive products; comfortable with complex data models, transformation pipelines, and making large datasets accessible to users
- Comfort with ambiguity; experience scoping and shipping work in environments where the problem wasn't fully defined upfront
- Mission-driven and excited to build products that help companies measure and reduce their carbon emissions
Responsibilities
- Build and extend Watershed's core measurement platform, the system that turns raw enterprise data into auditable carbon footprints for customers like Airbnb, FedEx, and Visa
- Work across our full stack, tackling problems that range from data ingestion and transformation pipelines, to interactive querying and visualization tools
- Own features and systems end-to-end; from understanding customer needs through to shipping, monitoring, and iterating
- Navigate complex data domains: multi-currency inputs, global regulatory frameworks, diverse data formats, and large-scale aggregation
- Partner with Product, Design, and Climate Science to translate complex sustainability concepts into intuitive, trustworthy user experiences
- Help build Watershed's Denver engineering presence; contribute to hiring, mentoring, and office culture as a founding team member
Benefits
- Watershed provides lunch every day in the office
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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