Software engineer, developer tooling

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, Denver, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City, 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 sustainability program. We measure our success in the carbon reduction achievements of our customers. We are looking for team members who love building systems that empower other engineers and power a high-quality product experience.

We’re hiring a software engineer on our Developer Tooling team. Our mission is to make Watershed a delightful place to build product with streamlined local development, AI development tooling, and test infrastructure, to help engineers move quickly without compromising reliability, security, or quality.

In this role, you will:

• Build and improve the tools that make local development delightful at Watershed

• Iterate on the tools, patterns, and guardrails that enable teams to adopt AI tooling to accelerate their work responsibly

• Build and iterate on developer-facing AI automation & tools that plug into our codebase and workflows

• Own and evolve our testing experience from local development to CI/CD: test frameworks and infrastructure, test reliability and performance, and making it easy for engineers to add checks and diagnose failures

• Ship improvements that all engineers feel day-to-day (our customers are Watershed engineering teams across North America and Europe)

You might be a good fit if you have:

• 3+ years of software engineering experience

• Experience building internal tools, developer platforms, or productivity systems that scale across an engineering org

• A passion for enabling other engineers to move quickly and safely

• Product sense for “internal products”: you can translate fuzzy pain points into clear problems, ship iteratively, and measure impact

• Excitement about how AI is transforming software development

• Comfort working across the stack (CLI/tools, services, CI config, developer workflows) and debugging complex systems

• Familiarity with some portions of our stack: JavaScript/TypeScript, GCP (or similar), Devbox, GitHub Actions, Playwright, Temporal, Terraform, AI tools like Cursor/Claude Code/Codex

This role will be based in our San Francisco 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, London, and Mexico City and satellite offices in Denver, Sydney, Paris, and Berlin. 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.