Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Carbon Direct is a mission-driven carbon management firm that uses scientific, software, and business expertise to help organizations take climate action. The Staff Backend Engineer will build and scale backend services, data pipelines, and APIs while setting technical direction, strengthening platform reliability, and enabling safe contributions from engineering and non-engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy robust backend services, data pipelines, and highly available APIs, owning the full path data takes through the platform
- Prototype quickly to test hypotheses, deciding what to rework and what to discard
- Harden validated prototypes, taking them through enterprise-scale adoption
- Make sound architectural decisions with limited precedent, resolving weak points before they become customer-facing problems
- Flex into devops and SRE work as the platform demands
- Support the developer experience for AI-empowered contributors from non-engineering backgrounds, building the modules and guardrails that let them ship and maintain backend capability safely
- Set technical direction and standards for backend engineering, mentor other engineers, and drive initiatives that span multiple services, pipelines, and teams
Skills
- Extensive professional experience as a backend engineer, with a track record of operating at staff level and setting technical direction with minimal oversight
- Vertical ownership. You have carried work from database schema through API and integration tests to the monitors that watch it in production
- You ship high-risk changes with a rollback path, a test plan, and proactively coordinate with stakeholders to reduce and mitigate disruptions
- Infrastructure fluency and reliability chops: infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and incident response experience
- An innovator who uses agentic engineering tools in their daily workflow and has deployed AI-augmented software systems to production
- A track record of building shared packages, tooling, and documentation that made the engineers and non-engineers around you faster
- A team player who collaborates effectively with product managers, scientists, and customer-facing teams, translating their needs into technical solutions
- Genuine interest in carbon, climate strategy, and energy is a strong plus
- Experience building or operating in a regulated environment (ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar)
- Depth in production AI-augmented systems: durable execution for long-running agents, evals with quantified reliability thresholds, identity and scoped permissions carried through agent tool calls, and defense against prompt injection on untrusted context
Benefits
- Comprehensive nationwide medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Time off as needed: Flexible vacation policy and ten company-wide holidays, plus annual winter break between Christmas and New Year's
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental and family leave with no tenure requirement
- Remote-friendly work culture with annual company-wide retreats
- Reimbursement for your work-from-home setup and monthly work-from-home stipend
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