Software Engineer

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

This role is an opportunity for a Software Engineer to join a growing engineering team and contribute to the core Carbon Arc platform. You will help integrate a wide range of data sources into a powerful and responsive intelligence hub, building APIs and services that expose massive data assets securely and efficiently to internal teams and external customers.

You will thrive in this role if you enjoy working in a fast-paced startup environment where your decisions have meaningful technical and product impact. If you enjoy building high-quality products in a data-rich environment spanning many domains and data types, this role offers a steady stream of challenging problems to solve.

What You'll Do

• 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

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience designing and delivering production systems
• Deep experience building and scaling RESTful APIs and integrating with complex backend data sources
• Strong proficiency in Python for backend development (FastAPI, Django, or Flask preferred)
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks, ideally React, with the ability to contribute when needed
• Hands-on experience with Node.js or equivalent runtime environments
• Strong SQL skills, including schema design, query optimization, tuning, and partitioning strategies
• Experience working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data formats (e.g., JSON, Parquet)
• Production experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience designing and maintaining data pipelines and DAG-based orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, etc.)
• Practical experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, identity, and access management in distributed systems
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• A proactive mindset with the ability to adapt quickly and drive change

Nice to Have

• Experience building developer-facing platforms or APIs used by external customers
• Exposure to high-throughput or low-latency systems at scale
• Familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing) in distributed systems
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code or deployment automation
• Prior experience in startup or high-growth environments

What We Offer

• Fully paid healthcare benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Remote work options
• 401(k) plan with employer contributions
• Paid time off
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Challenging problems to tackle with a supportive, entrepreneurially driven team
• A strong work culture centered on integrity, excellence, truth, trust, and transparency

Location

Carbon Arc is headquartered in New York City and operates as a remote-first company. Team members are expected to travel for in-person onsite gatherings at least one week per quarter to collaborate, plan, and connect as a team.

Disclaimer

Equal Opportunity Employer

Carbon Arc is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to fair and equitable hiring practices. All hiring decisions are based on strategic business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. All candidates are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Accommodations

Carbon Arc is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, please contact us at [e-mail] .