Carbon Direct - Staff Engineer
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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 (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with modern data stack tooling (e.g., 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. • Experience building data platforms in a greenfield or high-growth environment. • Familiarity with data mesh, data fabric, or federated data architecture patterns. • Experience with data governance, data cataloging, and metadata management frameworks. • Prior work in climate tech, sustainability, or a mission-driven organization.
Responsibilities
• Lead the design, implementation, and expansion of the company's data platform, including ingestion pipelines, data warehouse/lakehouse architecture, transformation layers, and data serving infrastructure. • Define and champion engineering standards, best practices, and architectural patterns for data infrastructure across the organization. • Collaborate cross-functionally to understand data needs and translate them into scalable, reliable platform capabilities. • Drive technical decisions on tooling, frameworks, and vendor selection for the data stack (e.g., orchestration, storage, transformation, observability). • Mentor and level up engineers on the team, providing technical guidance and code review with a focus on quality and long-term maintainability. • Proactively identify scalability, reliability, and performance bottlenecks and lead efforts to address them. • Partner with stakeholders across engineering, data science, and business teams to ensure the platform supports current and future analytical and operational needs. • Contribute to organizational planning and hiring, helping grow the data engineering function.
Benefits
• $184,000-$225,000 a year • 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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