Staff Backend Engineer
Carbon DirectRemote
Full Time
Posted August 26, 2026
$184k - $225k
Climate Technology
Remote
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Job Description
At Carbon Direct, we dedicate our scientific, software, and business expertise to empower organizations around the world to take climate action.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy robust backend services, data pipelines, and highly available APIs, owning the full path data takes through the platform.
- Prototype quickly to test hypotheses, deciding what to rework and what to discard.
- Harden validated prototypes, taking them through enterprise-scale adoption.
- Make sound architectural decisions with limited precedent, resolving weak points before they become customer-facing problems.
- Flex into devops and SRE work as the platform demands.
- Support the developer experience for AI-empowered contributors from non-engineering backgrounds, building the modules and guardrails that let them ship and maintain backend capability safely.
- Set technical direction and standards for backend engineering, mentor other engineers, and drive initiatives that span multiple services, pipelines, and teams.
Requirements
- Extensive professional experience as a backend engineer, with a track record of operating at staff level and setting technical direction with minimal oversight.
- Vertical ownership. You have carried work from database schema through API and integration tests to the monitors that watch it in production.
- You ship high-risk changes with a rollback path, a test plan, and proactively coordinate with stakeholders to reduce and mitigate disruptions.
- Infrastructure fluency and reliability chops: infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and incident response experience.
- An innovator who uses agentic engineering tools in their daily workflow and has deployed AI-augmented software systems to production.
- A track record of building shared packages, tooling, and documentation that made the engineers and non-engineers around you faster.
- A team player who collaborates effectively with product managers, scientists, and customer-facing teams, translating their needs into technical solutions.
- Genuine interest in carbon, climate strategy, and energy is a strong plus.
Benefits & Perks
- While we love our work, our lives aren’t defined by it. At Carbon Direct, we offer a robust benefits package that considers the whole person, their partners, and their families – and we’re always looking to improve.
- 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
- *Please note that the benefits described apply to U.S.-based employees only. For our international employees, our benefits package varies by each country and its statutory requirements.
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