Senior API Engineer - Scalable Data Platform

Carbon Arc; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid healthcare benefits

Remote work options

401(k) plan with employer contributing

Paid time off

Parental and family leave policies

Job summary

Carbon Arc is seeking a Software Engineer to join its growing engineering team. You will help integrate diverse data sources into a powerful intelligence hub, building APIs and services that securely expose massive data assets to internal teams and external customers.

You will thrive in a fast-paced startup environment where your decisions impact product direction and technical outcomes. Remote-first with travel for onsite gatherings quarterly.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems.
• Deep experience building and scaling RESTful APIs with complex data sources.
• Strong Python backend development experience (FastAPI, Django, or Flask).
• Front-end exposure with React; ability to contribute when needed.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
• Familiar with data formats like JSON and Parquet.
• Experience with Airflow, Prefect, or similar DAG schedulers.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-based security practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; proactive and collaborative.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with backend and frontend engineers to design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs that expose massive data assets for user consumption
• Develop custom, high-performance APIs supporting terabytes of structured and unstructured data
• Ensure APIs are complete, intuitive, and useful for both internal teams and external customers
• Implement proactive monitoring and observability for APIs with traceability back to source systems
• Contribute to the reliability, security, and performance of production services
• Participate in architectural discussions and engineering best-practice development

Skills

RESTful APIs

Python backend

SQL skills

Data pipelines

Cloud security

Observability

Distributed systems

Communication

On-call production

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow

Prefect

React

Node.js

FastAPI

AWS

Job description

Carbon Arc is seeking a Software Engineer to join its growing engineering team. You will help integrate diverse data sources into a powerful intelligence hub, building APIs and services that securely expose massive data assets to internal teams and external customers.

You will thrive in a fast-paced startup environment where your decisions impact product direction and technical outcomes. Remote-first with travel for onsite gatherings quarterly.