Staff Data Engineer

Company: Recruiting From Scratch
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.Who we are:We are a mission-driven company looking to restore nature to help address climate change. We bring the latest technology in remote sensing and AI to the world of forest carbon in order to enable forest conservation and restoration to scale. Our core technology harnesses satellite imaging with artificial intelligence to measure carbon captured in forests. Through our marketplace, responsible companies and individuals can connect with carbon credits from projects that are protecting and restoring forests worldwide.We are backed by mission-aligned investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Amazon Climate Fund, Chris Sacca, Saltwater Ventures, and Paul Graham.Position: Staff Data EngineerWe are looking for a Staff Data Engineer to lead the development of cutting-edge data systems backing our products for our mission to restore and protect the planet's forests. As a leader on the DMRV (Digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) team, you will build, scale, and deploy systems for ingesting, storing, and computing the data powering our AI and Remote Sensing insights. You will be responsible for delivering those data insights to our customers to enable them to identify and originate the highest quality nature-based projects.Responsibilities:

• Collaborate across engineering and science teams to understand new dataset ingest pathways for model or algorithm features.
• Write code to support efficient compute and scalable transformation and algorithms to unlock insights over project data.
• Design systems for easy data access and experimentation pathways.
• Pair code with other engineers to raise the standards and bar on our technical work.
• Roadmap core improvements to our data, compute, or measurement stack.What We're Looking For:We're looking for engineers who find joy in the craft of building but live for seeing the end-to-end impact and want to rally engineers around them. Engineers who push forward initiatives by asking great questions, cutting through ambiguity, and organizing to win. Engineers who are relentlessly detail-oriented, methodical in their approach to understanding trade-offs, and place the highest emphasis on building and building quickly.Location:This role is remote. However, given the cross-functional communication responsibilities, it is preferred that you be within 3 hours of Pacific time.Compensation: $117k - $186k base + equity + benefitsAt Recruiting from Scratch, we are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.Once you submit your application, our team will reach out if you are a fit.
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