# Staff Data Engineer at Overstory

- Company: Overstory
- What the company does: We help electric utilities optimize resources, mitigate vegetation risk, and future-proof their operations and maintenance programs for the growing climate and market challenges of our time. Backed by Techstars.
- Company website: https://20tree.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States | Canada | United Kingdom | The Netherlands | Denmark | Estonia | France | Ireland | Portugal | Sweden |...
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/overstory/jobs/4976740101
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/overstory-staff-data-engineer/

## About the role

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of experience designing and building production-grade data pipelines and systems
- Proven track record building and operating data pipelines at scale, with a real feel for idempotency, backfills, and partitioning
- Experience in preparing systems to handle periods of high demand with a focus on testability and scalability best practices
- Strong system design skills — you can reason about boundaries, contracts, coupling, and failure modes, and explain the tradeoffs to people who'll use and build on them
- Practical experience designing service-oriented architecture , including versioning and keeping things operational through migrations
- Strong Python skills and experience with Google Cloud

Tags: Engineering