Lead Engineer, API & Real Time Systems

About Scope3

Scope3 is the industry’s leading collaborative sustainability platform. By modeling the complex digital advertising supply chain, we help brands measure and dramatically reduce digital waste to reduce carbon emissions from advertising and increase the efficacy of advertising investment. This is an exceptional opportunity to build a company alongside great people and make a difference in one of the most important issues facing the planet: the climate crisis.

We’re a reliably-funded company of 100 folks distributed across the globe. We are fortunate to be led by an experienced leadership team, many of whom designed and engineered the digital advertising landscape as we know it today. The company secured $20M in Series B funding led by GV in Oct 2023 (additional investors include Venrock, Rucker Park, Room40 Ventures, and Craft Ventures), and we are thrilled to be the recipient of a secondary round of $25M in Oct 2024. Scope3 has significant market traction with more than 70+ customers and is experiencing accelerated growth.

Scope3 is a fully remote company and largely asynchronous to provide flexible working hours and to operate globally, with concentrations in New York and Europe. At this time, we are hiring in Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany, and the United States.

Engineering at Scope3

Our engineering team values a high-level understanding of our comprehensive technical ecosystem. We prioritize this technical familiarity in order to facilitate effective collaboration, cooperation, and productivity in a cross-functional environment.

About The Role

We are excited to add a lead engineer to our platform team, based in the US or Canada working from the EST time zone, the UK, France, or Germany. This individual contributor role will be responsible for overseeing + shaping the technical vision for our core emissions measurement API and all real time systems. In this role, you will not only guide the technology underpinning Scope3’s core api, but also help setting high performance standards across the engineering organization - with a focus on maintainable and performant Golang code.

Tech Stack + Architecture

Emissions Measurement API (documentation here)

This API is utilized directly by our customers (typically via batch pipelines, so we get huge request spikes every hour) and is the backbone for many of the products that we have built and have made available at scope3.com. For instance, all of the core emissions numbers powering our property report (example here) are powered by this core API.

The current tech stack focuses on running high throughput + low latency golang services deployed to a kubernetes engine running in Google Cloud Platform. Since low latency is a priority for our API - we utilize a large in-memory database to reduce the need for external network calls. This role would be instrumental in establishing the future architecture of this API as the breadth of data modeled and their use-cases continue to expand.

Real Time Systems

We recently added a real time data provider (documentation here) to our stack. This system has to have capacity to handle 1M+ QPS globally as well as reliably sub 5ms latencies. This network latency requirement also set us up to deploy our own servers next to our clients (we are using Equinix to get bare metals). The core application is built in Go and currently we are relying on in-memory cache systems (such as this one). The overall architecture and caching strategies used for this system are actively being iterated on and would be a key project undertaken by this individual.

What We’re Looking For:

• 8+ years of experience building real time, low latency, high throughput
• 4+ years experience operating as a technical lead
• Expertise in Golang
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services
• Experience with Kubernetes

Preference may be given to candidates with the following:

• Experience with Typescript
• Experience working in advertising technology, marketing, climate tech industries
• Experience working at globally distributed remote startups

A Note To Applicants:

Thank you for your interest in joining our team. We believe that all people are capable of great things. Because of this, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description.

 

 

Our Culture is rooted in …  

• A passion for the environment and climate work. We are a mission-driven company, and this is what motivates us to work hard and deliver outcomes for our customers. 
• A desire to communicate clearly and empathetically while working asynchronously. We have always been a globally distributed, remote-first company and leverage remote-friendly tools to collaborate such as Slack, Zoom, Notion, Miro, etc. 
• Celebration of healthy conflict in the workplace; differences in approach are good! We focus on the solutions and we move on quickly. 
• The ability and accountability to deliver what we promise. We do what we say we will do, and we don’t make promises we can’t keep. 
• Experience driving systemic change. Our mission is to decarbonize advertising and this requires a holistic approach to re-imagining and inspiring an industry movement at a global scale.