# Staff software engineer, data products

**Company:** [Watershed](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/watershed)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Denver, CO
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $202k – $255k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, TypeScript, Data Pipelines, Data Modeling, Data Validation, Data Ingestion, Backend Systems, Data Transformation, Monitoring
**Posted:** 2026-05-02

> Builds and maintains scalable backend platform and data pipelines for processing sustainability impact assessments and climate data. Requires 6+ years backend experience with Python, SQL, and data engineering expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain the core backend platform for calculating and processing sustainability impact assessments across global customer value chains.
- Architect and implement robust, scalable data models and systems ensuring consistency, integrity, and clear semantics for complex value chain and climate-related data.
- Develop and operate high-performance backend systems and data pipelines to ingest, transform, and harmonize external and customer datasets into reliable data assets.
- Focus on data accuracy, diving deep to validate changes and protect customers from unintended data alterations.
- Collaborate with climate scientists and data scientists to translate complex methodologies into validated, performant platform capabilities.
- Implement comprehensive validation, quality checks, and monitoring for high reliability of customer-facing sustainability data.
- Build abstractions, tooling, and infrastructure empowering data scientists, analysts, and engineers to integrate new calculation methods and data processing logic.
- Partner with product, scientists, and engineering leaders to define roadmap and build platforms for critical sustainability data and methods.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of industry experience in backend software engineering focused on scalable systems for data storage, processing, and retrieval.
- Fluent in **Python** and **SQL**, experience with data pipelining and transformation frameworks (**TypeScript** a plus).
- Experience designing backend systems that ingest, validate, and structure data from diverse, messy, or inconsistent sources.
- Strong engineering craft: well-tested, maintainable code and robust, scalable architectures and abstractions.
- Comfortable building backend platforms and tooling for other engineers, scientists, and analysts.
- Ability to communicate complex technical topics to technical and non-technical collaborators.
- Thrive in systematic, detail-oriented environments ensuring data integrity and reliability while moving quickly.
- Motivated by sustainability challenges at a fast-paced startup.

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