Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer | Watershed | Remote (United States)

Posted 2025-09-12
Remote, USA Full Time Immediate Start
<h2>About Watershed</h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://watershedclimate.com/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Watershed</a> is a software platform for running a world-class climate program. We measure our success in the carbon reduction achievements of our customers. We are looking for team members who love product-building, want to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We have offices in San Francisco, New York and London and remote team members across the US and Europe. We hope that you&#8217;ll be interested in joining us!</p>
<h2>The role</h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are looking for team members who love building the foundational libraries &amp; systems that empower other engineers. You&#8217;ll be joining the brand new Data Infrastructure team and defining the tools, schemas, and frameworks the rest of engineering uses to interact with our customer&#8217;s tabular data for years to come. This team values technical craft and building for the future while building the tools that our customers need to combat climate change.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re looking for folks with experience across the spectrum of data infrastructure, data platforms and production engineering. Some traits that are important to our company culture: customer-obsessed, hard-working, inclusive, and optimistic. And we’re looking for owners, so we hope you’ll help us expand this list.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">You might be a fit if you:</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Have 6+ years of software engineering industry experience</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have worked on a data infrastructure-focused engineering teams, built a data lake or data warehouse from scratch, or solved problems related to storing, transforming, and querying tabular data.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Deep understanding of open-source libraries, frameworks, and systems such as DuckDB, Spark, Trino, Iceberg, and Deltalake</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience scaling and re-architecting data platforms and infrastructure through orders of magnitude of growth and scaling data volume</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Are excited to join a startup and are ready to help evolve a growing engineering team</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">At Watershed, we strive to design consistent, fair, and competitive compensation programs. The total cash compensation range may be inclusive of several levels at Watershed and final offer will be determined by a number of factors, including the candidate’s skills, capabilities, and location, as well as scope of the role.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The anticipated cash compensation range is in addition to a total rewards benefit package including equity, health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), unlimited paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility, and mental health programs etc.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Salary Range</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">$189,000—$241,000 USD</p>
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<h2>FAQ</h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Where does Watershed work?</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We have hub offices in San Francisco, New York and London, and some remote team members in the US and EU. Most of our jobs need to be in San Francisco / New York / London, but certain jobs are open to being remote and will be specifically noted on the jobs page and in the job description.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What’s the interview process like?</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 to 2 conversations about Watershed, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but usual next steps are a skill or experience screen (e.g. a coding interview for an engineer, a portfolio review for a designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in person interview panel after that if the screens go well. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.</p>
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