Staff Engineer, Carbon Direct
$184-225k
Science-backed carbon management solutions
Be an early applicant
Science-backed carbon management solutions
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$184-225k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable meaningful, equitable, and science-based climate action.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our growing team
- In this role, you will serve as a technical leader responsible for designing and implementing a robust, scalable data platform that enhances our scientific capabilities and has a measurable climate impact
- You will establish best practices and set technical direction for your team, partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the platform adapts to meet the needs of a rapidly-evolving industry
- This is a high-impact, high-ownership role for an engineer who thrives on solving complex challenges and can operate with significant autonomy while influencing the broader technical roadmap
- 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
Our take
The urgency in addressing climate change has intensified, with the scientific consensus emphasizing the necessity of removing billions of tons of CO₂ annual to meet the 1.5°C target. Carbon Direct is playing a pivotal role in facilitating this transition by bridging the gap between carbon science and actionable climate strategies.
It does so through two main services: software for Fortune 500 companies to build serious carbon management plans, and an investment arm that backs high-quality carbon removal projects around the world. It's all grounded in science and its known for its team of experts, some of whom helped shape efforts like Elon Musk's $100M XPRIZE for carbon removal.
And its momentum isn't slowing down anytime soon, It now counts big names like Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, Meta, and JetBlue as clients. It's also been chosen as an Implementation Partner for the World EconomiC Forum's First Movers Coalition and made LinkedIn's Top Startups list two years running. The challenge now? Keeping up the pace. With the clock ticking on climate change, execution at scale matters now more than ever.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2022
$60m
LATE VC
Total funding: $60m
Company benefits
- overage: 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
- Time off as needed: Flexible vacation policy and ten company-wide holidays, plus annual winter break
- WFH reimbursement: Reimbursement for your work-from-home setup
- Parental leave: 16 weeks of fully paid parental and family leave with no tenure requirement
- Remote-friendly: Remote-friendly work culture with annual company-wide retreats
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Jonathan Goldberg
(Founder & CEO)Prior to founding Carbon Direct, Jonathan was the founder and Managing Partner of BBL Commodities. Before this, they were a partner at Glencore and an Investor at Goldman Sachs in the J. Aron commodities division.
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