Staff software engineer, data engineering

• Build, maintain, and expand the datasets used for sustainability impact assessment across global value chains.
• Design and implement data models and schemas that ensure consistency, integrity, and clear semantics across heterogeneous data sources.
• Develop and operate data pipelines to efficiently ingest, transform, and harmonize external datasets into well-structured, production-grade data assets.
• Implement robust validation, quality checks, and monitoring processes to ensure reliability and correctness of data over time.
• Build abstractions, tooling, and processes that empower data scientists and analysts to develop and test new pipelines safely and efficiently.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to make sustainability data available in ways that serve a variety of customer outcomes.

This role helps companies manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting, and drive real decarbonization, contributing to global sustainability efforts.

• Have 6+ years of industry experience in data engineering or software engineering with a strong focus on data systems.
• Are fluent in Python and SQL, and have experience with data pipelining and transformation frameworks. Typescript is a plus!
• Have experience modeling and harmonizing data from diverse, messy, or inconsistent sources into structured, reliable datasets.
• Care about engineering craft: writing well-tested, maintainable code and building abstractions that scale.
• Are comfortable building data 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 correctness while moving quickly.
• Are motivated by solving sustainability challenges and excited to do so at a fast-paced startup.

No specific benefits, compensation, or perks mentioned in the provided description.

Watershed is the 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 reporting, and drive real decarbonization.