Watershed · 18 hours ago
Staff software engineer, data products
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
6+ years expWatershed is the enterprise sustainability platform that helps companies manage climate and ESG data. The Staff Software Engineer will design and maintain backend systems for sustainability impact assessments, ensuring data integrity and collaborating with scientists to enhance platform capabilities.
Cloud Data ServicesInformation TechnologyInternetSoftware
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain the core backend platform responsible for calculating and processing sustainability impact assessments across global customer value chains
Architect and implement robust, scalable data models and systems that ensure consistency, integrity, and clear semantics for complex value chain and climate-related data
Develop and operate high-performance backend systems and data pipelines to efficiently ingest, transform, and harmonize external and customer datasets into reliable, production-grade data assets
Focus on the accuracy of the data that systems produce and can dive deep to ensure that all changes can be validated to protect customers from unintended data changes
Collaborate closely with climate scientists and data scientists to translate complex methodologies into high-quality, validated, and performant platform capabilities
Implement comprehensive validation, quality checks, and monitoring processes within the backend platform to ensure high reliability and correctness of customer-facing sustainability data
Build abstractions, tooling, and infrastructure that empower data scientists, analysts, and other engineering teams to safely and efficiently integrate new calculation methods and data processing logic
Partner with product, scientists and engineering leaders to define the roadmap and build the platforms and capabilities for serving customers with critical sustainability data and methods
Qualification
Required
6+ years of industry experience in backend software engineering with a strong focus on building and maintaining scalable systems for data storage, processing, and retrieval
Fluent in Python and SQL, and have experience with data pipelining and transformation frameworks
Experience designing and implementing backend systems that reliably ingest, validate, and structure data from diverse, messy, or inconsistent sources
Care deeply about engineering craft: writing well-tested, maintainable code and designing robust system architectures and abstractions that scale
Comfortable building backend platforms and tooling that will be used by other engineers, scientists, and analysts
Communicate complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical collaborators
Thrive in environments that combine systematic organization with attention to detail, ensuring data integrity and system reliability while moving quickly
Motivated by solving sustainability challenges and excited to do so at a fast-paced startup
Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles)
Preferred
Typescript is a plus!
Company
Watershed
Watershed serves as an enterprise climate platform utilized by companies to assess, report, and address their carbon emissions.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (3)
2024 (3)
2023 (6)
2022 (4)
2021 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$253.5MKey Investors
GreenoaksKleiner Perkins,Sequoia Capital
2026-01-06Series Unknown· $14.5M
2024-02-01Series C· $100M
2022-06-16Series B· $55M
Leadership Team
Avi Itskovich
Co-Founder
Christian Anderson
Co-Founder
Recent News
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