Staff software engineer, developer experience

Watershed; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Watershed seeks a Staff Software Engineer focusing on developer experience to enhance productivity and streamline tools for engineering teams. This role involves pioneering new initiatives, fostering development efficiency, and collaborating across functions in a mission-driven startup culture. Join us in utilizing engineering to drive impactful sustainability solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of engineering experience required.
• Experience building development productivity tools.
• A track record of identifying challenges.

Responsibilities

• Pioneer a new team focused on local dev efficiency.
• Collaborate with Engineering teams to improve workflows.
• Establish development and testing tools for reliability.

Skills

Engineering experience

Building internal dev tools

Identifying systemic challenges

Familiarity with Javascript/Typescript

Experience with GCP

Knowledge of Postgres

Tools

Javascript

Typescript

React

GCP

GitHub Actions

Terraform

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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.

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, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City (launching soon!) and remote team members across the US and Europe. We hope that you'll be interested in joining us!

The role

Watershed is a software platform for running a world-class climate program. We measure our success in the carbon reduction achievements of our customers. We are looking for team members who love building enabling systems that empower other engineers and power a high-quality product experience.

We’re building out our developer infrastructure function within the Foundations organization. Help us accelerate our entire engineering organization and encode best practices in our tools!

In this role, you will:

• Help pioneer and establish a new team focused on local dev efficiency, testing, observability, and reliability tooling for developers at Watershed
• Work on tools that make local development and production monitoring more effective and efficient, improving both the ergonomics and efficiency of our test/observability infrastructure across local development, CI, and production
• Collaborate with other Infrastructure functions and all Engineering teams to design and implement additional testing, staging, and release workflows
• Make it easy to do things the right way (testability, observability, security, performance, etc.)
• Work on a distributed team across US timezones
  
  

You might be a good fit if you have:

• 6+ years of engineering experience
• Experience building internal dev productivity and platform tools that help engineers in scalable and sustainable ways, and a passion for enabling other engineers to move quickly and safely
• A track record of proactively identifying systemic challenges and navigating ambiguity to resolve them, especially spanning team lines in an Engineering organization
• Familiarity with some portions of our tech stack: Javascript/Typescript/React, GCP (or similar cloud providers), Postgres, GitHub Actions, Temporal, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, Playwright, Honeycomb, as well as shell scripting and debugging/profiling/benchmarking
  
  

This role will be based in our San Francisco or New York City office.

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 and London, and satellite offices in Sydney, Paris, Berlin, and Mexico City (opening summer 2025!). 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Climate Data and Analytics

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