About the posting
“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.”
Read the full posting on Watershed's site
Seen live Oct 23, 2026; first seen Oct 22, 2026.
Pay in context
This posting lists $202,100 to $255,000 a year, a midpoint of $228,550.
The midpoint is higher than 59 percent of software engineering postings in New York, NY that list pay.
New York has a pay transparency law: covered employers must include a pay range in a job posting. Which employers are covered depends on their size.
How long it has been open
Posted Aug 12, 2026, 72 days ago, and seen on Watershed's careers page today.
At 72 days old, it is under the 73-day median.
Watershed at a glance
Watershed has 22 open postings that we can see, 4 in software engineering; 95 percent list pay.
The application
Applying goes through Ashby.
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Seniority
Level: senior.
The posting mentions 6+ years.
Place and cost of living
On site in New York, NY; prices in NY run 8 percent above the US average.
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The software engineering market in New York, NY
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Half of them have been open 73 days or less.
From Watershed's posting
This is Watershed's own text, as published on its job board. We last checked it on Oct 23, 2026. Apply on Watershed's site. We remove a posting when the employer closes it.
ABOUT WATERSHED
Watershed https://watershed.com/ 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 climate program. We measure our success in the carbon reduction achievements of our customers. We are looking for team members to join our team focused on delivering outcomes for our Financial Institution customers.
You’ll work on the team turning Watershed’s data layer into an intelligence platform: BI-grade querying, AI-powered discovery and analysis, and the schema architecture underneath it all. The goal is for customers to get answers inside Watershed—not export to Excel.
What you could work on
- Build new interactive data visualizations to help climate leads https://watershed.com/climate-leads understand their company's emissions.
- Build APIs to unify carbon data access for customers and other engineers.
- Build tools that help financial institutions measure and report emissions across their portfolio companies.
- Build tools for customers to effectively ingest and interpret business data.
You will
- Ship code to production on day one https://watershed.com/inside/the-day-one-ship
- Collaborate with product, design, climate science, and data science to build and iterate on software that helps our customers understand their climate data
You might be a fit if you
- Have 6+ years of software engineering industry experience, preferably in Node.js web development or data pipelines
- Have experience building scalable software starting from user needs
- Are excited to join a startup and are ready to help evolve a growing engineering team
This role will be based in our New York City 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.