Software engineer, developer tooling

About the role

The role is a software engineer on our Developer Tooling team at Watershed. Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform used by companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics, and drive decarbonization.

Responsibilities

• 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)

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles)

Benefits

• Watershed has hub offices in San Francisco, New York, London, and Mexico City and satellite offices in Denver, Sydney, Paris, and Berlin.
• 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.

Pay

Details on pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

Details on schedule are not specified in the job posting.