Senior Software Engineer (Real-Time Data)

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 venture backed company of 65 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 an additional round of $25M in Oct 2024. Scope3 has significant market traction with more than 150+ 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.

About the Role

We are excited to add a Senior Software Engineer to our Real-Time Data Systems team, ideally based in a North American time zone. This individual contributor will help design and build the distributed systems that power our real-time data platform — ingesting, processing, and serving high-throughput data with low latency and high reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Write production Go code regularly
• Make architectural decisions that balance performance, scalability, maintainability, and cost
• Drive initiatives to improve system reliability, observability, and operational excellence
• Collaborate with data science, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver customer value
• Establish best practices for code quality, testing, and system design in high-throughput environments

Qualifications:

• 5+ years building and scaling distributed systems in production
• Strong proficiency in Golang with experience writing performance-sensitive services
• Hands-on experience with OLAP databases such as Clickhouse, BigQuery, or Snowflake
• Experience designing systems that handle high throughput (e.g., event streams, streaming pipelines, or real-time analytics)
• Experience operating systems in production (monitoring, debugging, incident response)
• Strong focus on system maintainability, operational excellence, and technical debt management
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and modern deployment practices
• Comfort making architectural tradeoffs and explaining decisions clearly

Preference may be given to candidates with the following:

• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication
• Familiarity with advertising technology data and metrics
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and workflow orchestration systems (e.g., Temporal)

Compensation:

The salary range for this role is $130k-$190k USD, $140k-$200k CAD.

These ranges span multiple location-based salary bands across the US and Canada. Candidates are aligned to a narrower range based on geographic market compensation data, and final offers reflect demonstrated skills, experience, and role expectations.

Benefits & Perks:

Details vary by location (USA/Canada), but all employees receive:

• Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with significant employer contribution; short- and long-term disability coverage; health savings/flexible spending options
• Retirement: Employer-matched retirement savings plan (401(k) or RRSP)
• Time off: Generous paid time off, statutory holidays, and year-end office closure
• Parental leave: 13 weeks fully paid (eligibility requirements apply)
• Remote work: Company-provided home office equipment, setup stipend, and access to WeWork spaces
• Equity: Stock options for eligible roles

Our Culture & Values

• 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.
• Clear and empathetic communication, especially while working asynchronously. We have always been a global, remote-first company and we collaborate using Notion, Miro, Slack, Loom, and other tools.
• We celebrate healthy conflict in the workplace; 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 make advertising and AI more effective for the economy and the environment, and this requires a holistic approach to re-imagining and inspiring an industry movement at a global scale.

A Note To Applicants

We believe that all people are capable of great things. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description.