Staff Engineer
Carbon DirectLocation not specified
Full Time
Posted April 28, 2026
$184k - $225k
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Job Description
A Staff Engineer at Carbon Direct will lead the design and development of a scalable data platform to support scientific and climate impact initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams and setting technical standards to advance the company's mission of enabling organizations to reduce and remove emissions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and expand the company's data platform, including ingestion pipelines, data warehouse/lakehouse architecture, transformation layers, and data serving infrastructure.
- Establish and promote engineering standards, best practices, and architectural patterns for data infrastructure.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs and develop scalable, reliable platform capabilities.
- Make technical decisions regarding tooling, frameworks, and vendor selection for the data stack.
- Mentor and review the work of engineers to ensure quality and maintainability.
- Identify and address scalability, reliability, and performance bottlenecks in the data platform.
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure the platform supports analytical and operational needs.
- Contribute to organizational planning and hiring to grow the data engineering team.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or a related discipline, with a track record of building and scaling data infrastructure across multiple products or business domains.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing end-to-end data platforms, including batch and or streaming pipelines, data warehouse or lakehouse architectures, and transformation frameworks.
- Deep expertise in at least one major cloud data ecosystem such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiarity with modern data stack tooling such as dbt, Spark, Airflow, Dagster, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Kafka.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in Python and/or Scala, Java for data systems.
- Ability to operate at both the strategic architectural level and the hands-on implementation level.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction and align cross-functional stakeholders.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 184,000-225,000 USD per year
Flexible vacation policy and ten company-wide holidays, plus annual winter break between Christmas and New Year
16 weeks of fully paid parental and family leave with no tenure requirement
Remote-friendly work culture with annual company-wide retreats
Reimbursement for work-from-home setup and monthly work-from-home stipend
Comprehensive nationwide medical, dental, and vision coverage
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