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Data Engineer (high-ownership role)

Climate People, New York, New York, us, 10261

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Overview We’re partnering a mission-driven climate tech startup building software to accelerate the clean energy transition. They are profitable, growing, and focused on making a real impact on decarbonizing the U.S. power grid.

Your Impact (Responsibilities) As a Data Engineer, you’ll design, build, and scale the data infrastructure and pipelines that power critical decision-making for renewable energy projects. Your work will directly support utilities, developers, and transmission planners in identifying where and how clean energy can be deployed faster.

Develop robust ETL pipelines for energy and grid datasets

Build and optimize data models that feed analytics, dashboards, and customer-facing features

Automate ingestion and transformation of large, complex energy datasets (e.g., transmission, generation, interconnection, load)

Ensure data quality, reliability, and performance across the platform

Contribute to backend services and occasionally support new product features in collaboration with the engineering team

About / Qualifications

You have 4+ years of professional experience in data engineering or related backend roles

Strong Python skills with experience in building data pipelines (e.g., pandas, dagster, Airflow)

Proficient with SQL and database design (relational or analytical stores)

Experience handling large or complex datasets; bonus if familiar with energy/grid data

Comfortable working cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and domain experts

Motivated by climate impact and excited to support the renewable energy industry

Thrive in ambiguity and take initiative on large, loosely-defined projects

Collaborative, pragmatic, and flexible—especially in a startup environment

Familiarity with GraphQL, REST APIs, or cloud-native data tooling is a plus

The Company We’re partnering a mission-driven climate tech startup building software to accelerate the clean energy transition. They are profitable, growing, and focused on making a real impact on decarbonizing the U.S. power grid.

Other details

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Information Technology

Industries: Climate Data and Analytics, Software Development, and Services for Renewable Energy

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