Staff software engineer, sustainability platform

Location Denver Type Full-Time Department Engineering Compensation $215,000 - $253,800

About Watershed

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Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens use Watershed to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including CSRD, and drive real decarbonization. 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.

We have offices in San Francisco, New York, Denver, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City, and remote team members across the US and Europe. We hope that you'll be interested in joining us!

The role

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We're seeking a Staff Full-Stack Engineer to join the Sustainability Platform (SusPlat) organization - the engineering group responsible for Watershed's core measurement engine. Every customer footprint, every sustainability report, and every emissions insight that Watershed produces flows through the systems this org builds and maintains. SusPlat spans the full data lifecycle: collecting raw enterprise data, transforming and standardizing it, running emissions calculations, and making the results queryable and actionable for customers and internal teams alike.

This is foundational, high-leverage work. When a Fortune 500 company needs to understand their carbon emissions across thousands of facilities, millions of transactions, and dozens of countries, SusPlat makes it possible. You'll work across multiple problem domains, collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and climate scientists to build systems that are both technically rigorous and genuinely useful to the sustainability professionals who rely on them every day.

You'll also be a founding member of Watershed's Denver engineering team, helping to establish the culture, practices, a...