Every carbon number carbmee produces for a customer starts as someone else's mess: a dozen ERP exports, mismatched supplier spreadsheets, transactional data that doesn't line up with product data, emissions factors that don't map cleanly to anything. As a Sustainability Data Engineer, you build the pipelines that turn that mess into carbmee EIS™'s single source of truth: the foundation of every Corporate, Supply Chain, and Product carbon footprint (CCF, SCF, PCF) we calculate is built on.
This is an infrastructure-and-integration role first, sustainability domain role second, but the two aren't separable here. You'll be the person who decides how a customer's SAP data actually maps into our schema, what happens when a required field is missing, and how a pipeline scales from one pilot customer to twenty enterprise deployments without falling over.
Sustainability Data Engineer (all genders) | carbmee
Munich
Full-time
Permanent employee
Intro
Your tasks
- Design and build the ETL pipelines that ingest customer data: PLM/product data and transactional data - from ERP systems (especially SAP), procurement platforms, and flat files, and transform it into carbmee's data model.
- Own data quality logic: field validation, deduplication, handling missing values, and encoding the judgment calls (e.g., when missing weight data forces a fallback from activity-based to spend-based emissions estimation) that keep a pipeline from silently producing wrong numbers.
- Build and maintain the integrations connecting carbmee EIS™ to customer systems via APIs, custom scripts (Python, SQL), and batch/streaming data pipelines.
- Work with LLM-assisted mapping tools (we use Claude extensively) to accelerate transformation work, while building the guardrails that catch when a model would mismap a column it doesn't have context for.
- Partner with customer IT and data teams directly to understand system architecture and resolve integration blockers.
- Feed recurring data-quality patterns back to carbmee's product and engineering teams so the platform gets smarter with every deployment, not just more scripts.
- Contribute to the internal tooling and templates that let the next Sustainability Data Engineer or Forward Deployed Engineer onboard a new customer faster than you did.
Your profile
Who you are
Associate: you have relevant experience (internships, working student roles, or 1-2 years full-time) in data engineering, backend development, or a technical consulting environment, with strong fundamentals in Python and SQL and genuine curiosity about the sustainability domain.
Senior: you have a proven track record building and scaling production data pipelines (ideally including ERP integrations - SAP a strong plus) and are comfortable owning architecture decisions with minimal oversight. Prior exposure to carbon accounting, ESG data, or regulatory reporting (CBAM, CSRD) is a strong plus but not required if your data engineering fundamentals are excellent.
Associate: you have relevant experience (internships, working student roles, or 1-2 years full-time) in data engineering, backend development, or a technical consulting environment, with strong fundamentals in Python and SQL and genuine curiosity about the sustainability domain.
Senior: you have a proven track record building and scaling production data pipelines (ideally including ERP integrations - SAP a strong plus) and are comfortable owning architecture decisions with minimal oversight. Prior exposure to carbon accounting, ESG data, or regulatory reporting (CBAM, CSRD) is a strong plus but not required if your data engineering fundamentals are excellent.
- Strong command of Python and SQL; experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and ETL/data pipeline tooling.
- Comfort with genuinely messy, real-world enterprise data, and the skepticism to validate rather than assume it's clean.
- Ability to work directly with customer technical stakeholders, not just internal teams.
- Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Fluent in English and German.
- Based in Munich.
Benefits
- Unique & Powerful Mission: join a fast-growing and ambitious tech company that is shaping the future of carbon management and fighting climate change
- Compensation & Rewards: a steep learning curve and ownership from day one. We offer an attractive compensation package, including virtual stock options
- Health & Wellbeing: Urban Sports Club subscription to stay healthy & fit.1:1 coaching sessions with Nilohealth for your mental well-being.
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: a flexible hybrid working culture with a lovely accessible office in Berlin-Mitte or the center of Munich
- Team Culture: Our transparency, Humility, and Accountability values create a unique and supportive working environment. Be part of a multinational, motivated team that thinks work should be fun!
- Connection & Networking: Summer Offsite, Winter Party, and regular team events We give you plenty of opportunities to connect with people, strengthen cross-functional relationships, and boost collaboration
- Trust & Transparency: monthly All-Hands Meetings, weekly update newsletters, and Founders Q&As. We keep you informed on current company numbers and goals
About us
carbmee is an Enterprise Software company built for the architectural backbone of the global economy. In an era where sustainability defines a company’s right to operate, we provide the System of Action for the world’s most complex manufacturing sectors with a strong footprint in Automotive and Defense.
We specialize in high-stakes, large-scale enterprise deployments where environmental data is no longer just a reporting requirement, but a critical strategic asset. Our platform empowers global industry leaders to transform fragmented data points into actionable intelligence, enabling them to make the defining decisions for the future of their products and supply chains.
At the heart of carbmee is a team of world-class talent: a powerhouse of engineers, industry experts, and visionaries dedicated to solving the most pressing industrial challenges of our time. We believe that solving the "hard-to-abate" problem requires the best minds in the world, and we are constantly looking for exceptional individuals to join our mission. We are calling this the "Industry Endgame".
Backed by a €20M Series A from top-tier investors and operating out of our hubs in Berlin and Munich, we are scaling rapidly, having the ambition to build a generational software company out of Germany.