Engineering Director, Platform & Data System

• Lead and support a team of senior engineers across software, data processing, and geospatial systems.
• Oversee people management, performance, career development, and remove blockers to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Provide technical leadership on architecture, system design, and cross-cutting decisions; promote consistent engineering practices.
• Partner with product, science, operations, and external partners to align planning, prioritization, and execution.

This role enables Carbon Mapper to scale its data portal and satellite observations, making methane and CO2 emissions data accessible and actionable for decisionmakers to drive greenhouse gas reductions.

• 8+ years of engineering management experience, including supporting senior individual contributors.
• Prior hands-on engineering experience (backend, data, geospatial, platform, or DevOps) with ability to guide technical decisions.
• Applied AI engineering experience with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or agentic AI workflows.
• Technical proficiency in backend systems, cloud architectures, and data pipelines.

Base salary range of $200,000 - $220,000/year. Benefits include affordable health coverage (medical, dental, vision), generous time-off policy, professional development, and more. This is a full-time, exempt position with occasional after-hours/weekend work and a compensated on-call rotation.

Carbon Mapper is a non-profit organization based in Pasadena, CA that leverages remote sensing technology to detect, pinpoint, and quantify methane and CO2 emissions at facility scale, making data publicly available to drive mitigation action.