Software engineer, cloud infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

Watershed’s Cloud Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundational systems that power our product and help every engineer ship safely and efficiently. We own core compute, databases, networking, deployments, and observability, with a focus on production reliability, predictable infrastructure costs, security, and a low-toil developer experience.

🏢 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.

🎯 The Role

You will design, build, and operate reliable cloud infrastructure that powers all of Watershed (across compute, databases, networking, deployment systems, and observability). Contribute to technical planning, design reviews, team processes, and a culture of thoughtful, high-impact development. Collaborate with product engineers (our internal customers) to understand their needs and provide high-leverage infrastructure primitives that help them move faster, safely. Strengthen Watershed’s cloud security in partnership with our Security and Compliance functions, and drive infrastructure cost efficiency in collaboration with our Finance team. Participate in the team’s 24/7 on-call rotation and help turn operational lessons into lasting improvements.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable cloud infrastructure that powers all of Watershed (across compute, databases, networking, deployment systems, and observability)
• Contribute to technical planning, design reviews, team processes, and a culture of thoughtful, high-impact development
• Collaborate with product engineers (our internal customers) to understand their needs and provide high-leverage infrastructure primitives that help them move faster, safely
• Strengthen Watershed’s cloud security in partnership with our Security and Compliance functions, and drive infrastructure cost efficiency in collaboration with our Finance team
• Participate in the team’s 24/7 on-call rotation and help turn operational lessons into lasting improvements

📌 Required Qualifications

• You have 2–5 years of software and/or infrastructure engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience
• You have hands-on experience in some of these areas: Kubernetes, Terraform / infrastructure as code, CI/CD, networking, relational databases, observability, reliability, or cloud security. Experience with a major cloud provider is a must; experience with GCP is helpful, but not required
• You enjoy the challenge of building the appropriate level of tooling for the stage and arc of the company, in particular being on the front lines of supporting AI infrastructure and agentic products
• You enjoy building enabling systems that help other engineers deliver excellent customer outcomes
• Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles)

🎁 Benefits

The total cash compensation range may be inclusive of several levels at Watershed and final offer will be determined by a number of factors, including the candidate’s skills, capabilities, and location, as well as scope of the role. The anticipated cash compensation range is in addition to a total rewards benefit package including equity, health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), unlimited paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility, and mental health programs, etc.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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.