Software Engineering (remote)

This role is an opportunity for a Software Engineer to join a growing engineering team and contribute to the core Carbon Arc platform. You will help integrate a wide range of data sources into a powerful and responsive intelligence hub, building APIs and services that expose massive data assets securely and efficiently to internal teams and external customers.

You will thrive in this role if you enjoy working in a fast-paced startup environment where your decisions have meaningful technical and product impact. If you enjoy building high-quality products in a data-rich environment spanning many domains and data types, this role offers a steady stream of challenging problems to solve.

Collaborate with backend and frontend engineers to design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs that expose massive data assets for user consumption

Develop custom, high-performance APIs supporting terabytes of structured and unstructured data

Ensure APIs are complete, intuitive, and useful for both internal teams and external customers

Implement proactive monitoring and observability for APIs with traceability back to source systems

Contribute to the reliability, security, and performance of production services

5+ years of professional software engineering experience designing and delivering production systems

• Deep experience building and scaling RESTful APIs and integrating with complex backend data sources
• Strong proficiency in Python for backend development (FastAPI, Django, or Flask preferred)
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks, ideally React, with the ability to contribute when needed
• Hands-on experience with Node.js or equivalent runtime environments
• Strong SQL skills, including schema design, query optimization, tuning, and partitioning strategies
• Experience working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data formats (e.g., Experience designing and maintaining data pipelines and DAG-based orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, etc.)
• Practical experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Experience building developer-facing platforms or APIs used by external customers

Experience with infrastructure-as-code or deployment automation

Fully paid healthcare benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)

• Remote work options
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• A strong work culture centered on integrity, excellence, truth, trust, and transparency

Carbon Arc is headquartered in New York City and operates as a remote-first company. Team members are expected to travel for in-person onsite gatherings at least one week per quarter to collaborate, plan, and connect as a team.

All candidates are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Carbon Arc is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, please contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io.