Staff Backend Engineer
Carbon Direct4 hours ago
Base Salary
$184k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy backend services, data pipelines, and highly available APIs.
- Own the full data path from ingestion and database schemas through services, APIs, integrations, testing, and production monitoring.
- Prototype rapidly, evaluate hypotheses, and harden validated solutions for enterprise-scale adoption.
- Set technical direction and make architectural decisions across multiple services, pipelines, and teams.
- Contribute to DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, observability, and incident-response work as needed.
- Build developer-experience modules and guardrails that enable non-engineering contributors to ship and maintain backend capabilities safely.
- Establish backend engineering standards, mentor engineers, and drive cross-functional initiatives.
- Plan rollback paths and test plans for high-risk changes while coordinating with stakeholders to mitigate disruption.
Requirements
- Extensive professional experience as a backend engineer with demonstrated staff-level technical ownership and direction-setting.
- Experience owning work vertically from database schema through APIs, integration tests, and production monitoring.
- Experience shipping high-risk changes with rollback plans, test plans, and proactive stakeholder coordination.
- Fluency with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and incident response.
- Experience using agentic engineering tools and deploying AI-augmented software systems to production.
- Track record of building shared packages, tooling, and documentation that improve developer productivity.
- Ability to collaborate with product managers, scientists, and customer-facing teams to translate needs into technical solutions.
- Experience in a regulated environment such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2 is a bonus.
- Production AI-augmented systems experience involving durable execution, quantified reliability evaluations, identity and scoped permissions, or prompt-injection defenses is a bonus.
- Genuine interest in carbon, climate strategy, and energy is a strong plus.
Benefits
- Comprehensive nationwide medical, dental, and vision coverage for U.S.-based employees.
- Flexible vacation policy, ten company-wide holidays, and an annual winter break between Christmas and New Year's.
- Sixteen weeks of fully paid parental and family leave with no tenure requirement.
- Remote-friendly work culture with annual company-wide retreats.
- Work-from-home setup reimbursement and a monthly work-from-home stipend.
- Remote-friendly work options, with offices in Seattle and Oakland; international benefits vary by country and statutory requirements.
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About Carbon Direct
Carbon Direct is a trusted energy and climate solutions company that combines world-class scientific expertise, technical rigor, and market insights to help clients achieve their business goals. Our 70+ scientists work closely with our finance, policy, and market experts to design, diligence, and deliver decarbonization solutions across industries. From JPMorganChase to Microsoft, Carbon Direct helps leading companies with carbon dioxide removal, carbon measurement, firm, clean power opportunities, and low-carbon energy solutions.