Staff software engineer, sustainability platform

About Watershed

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

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, and technical direction of a growing office.

In this role you will:

• Build and extend Watershed's core measurement platform, the system that turns raw enterprise data into auditable carbon footprints for customers like Airbnb, FedEx, and Visa
• Work across our full stack, tackling problems that range from data ingestion and transformation pipelines, to interactive querying and visualization tools
• Own features and systems end-to-end; from understanding customer needs through to shipping, monitoring, and iterating
• Navigate complex data domains: multi-currency inputs, global regulatory frameworks, diverse data formats, and large-scale aggregation
• Partner with Product, Design, and Climate Science to translate complex sustainability concepts into intuitive, trustworthy user experiences
• Help build Watershed's Denver engineering presence; contribute to hiring, mentoring, and office culture as a founding team member

You might be a good fit if you have:

• 8+ years of software engineering industry experience across both front-end and back-end
• A track record of ownership, shipping end-to-end features, and high-impact projects
• Experience building data-intensive products; you're comfortable with complex data models, transformation pipelines, and making large datasets accessible to users
• Comfort with ambiguity; you've scoped and shipped work in environments where the problem wasn't fully defined upfront
• Mission-driven and excited to build products that help companies measure and reduce their carbon emissions

The Denver Office:
Our Denver office is one of Watershed's newest and fastest-growing hubs. Located at 1615 Platte Street in LoHi, it's home to a collaborative team of engineers, product managers, and business partners working together in person. Watershed provides lunch every day in the office, and you'll have the opportunity to help shape the culture and future of a growing engineering presence in Denver.

Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles)

Watershed has hub offices in San Francisco, New York, London, and Mexico City and satellite offices in Denver, Sydney, Paris, and Berlin. Where we have offices, employees are expected to be in office for 4 days per week. Certain jobs are open to being remote and will be specifically noted on the jobs page and in the job description if so.

What’s the interview process like?

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 interview (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. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.

What if I need accommodations for my interview?

At Watershed, we are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health needs, religious observances, neurodivergence, or pregnancy-related support requirements. If you need assistance during your process, please contact your recruiter.