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title: 'Staff Data Engineer at Palmetto Clean Technology'
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# Staff Data Engineer at Palmetto Clean Technology

- **Company:** Palmetto Clean Technology
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/palmettocleantech/jobs/5464732008

## Job description

Company Description

Palmetto is a consumer energy platform that provides homeowners with a single destination to discover, purchase, finance, install, monitor and manage home energy products and services. By offering one integrated platform across solar, battery storage, HVAC, heat pumps and more, Palmetto helps homeowners make home energy more affordable, reliable and accessible. Today Palmetto serves hundreds of thousands of homeowners, across 30+ states, building the operating infrastructure for the consumer energy transition, one home at a time.

Our employees are our most valuable resource. We foster a promote-from-within culture that prioritizes talent development, career growth, and purpose-driven work. Palmetto offers a comprehensive benefits package—including unlimited PTO, medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid parental leave, retirement plans, and more—so you can have it all both personally and professionally. Palmetto prioritizes people, planet, and profit—backed by a culture that values collaboration, impact, and balance. Join us in building a brighter, cleaner world.

Location

This position will be remote based in the United States.

Reporting

This position will report to the Senior Manager, Data Engineering.

Summary of Role

You will own the technical design of the data platform that powers Palmetto's products, partners, and AI agents. Our data spans the whole customer journey: sales, lending, installation, interconnection, and years of system production. You will turn it into one governed, trustworthy view of the business, with each metric defined once so every dashboard, notebook, and agent returns the same answer. You will also build the secure, authorized, auditable path that lets people and systems use that data directly.

This is a high-leverage individual-contributor role. You'll set technical direction, write foundational code, and work closely with core platform and product teams. AI agents are first-class consumers of our platform, and we build with them every day.

Strategic & Tactical

- Model the business. Build and own data products that deliver trustworthy data, from bronze to gold, for analysts, engineers, product teams, partners, and AI tools.
- Make data agent-ready. Shape the semantic context, documentation, and interfaces that let agents answer from governed definitions, with answers that trace back to source.
- Build governance in. Treat classification, masking, access policy, and change control as code, and prepare the platform for SOC 2 and related compliance audits.
- Build and run pipelines. Operate ingestion and orchestration as code, with CI/CD, observability, alerting, and SLAs.
- Communicate. Partner with finance, operations, product and engineering to understand how their data requirements are evolving.
- Build the access path. Design and operate the secure, authorized, low-latency interface through which products, partners, and agents consume data.
- Raise the bar. Review code, mentor teammates, and give engineering teams templates and CI checks to ship trusted data.

## Qualifications

- 8+ years in data engineering, including time at a Staff or lead level owning a platform used by multiple teams.
- Deep experience in SQL and Python.
- Strong database fundamentals in a modern analytical warehouse (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery): schema design, query plans, distributed computing.
- Deep experience with dbt or an adjacent transformation framework (e.g., SQLMesh, Dataform).
- Experience with ETL orchestration (e.g., Fivetran, Airflow).
- Infrastructure as code and container orchestration on a major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Demonstrated agentic engineering beyond prompting: you run coding agents in loops checked by specs and tests, and stay curious about new tools.
- Design docs that settled cross-team architecture questions, and clear written and verbal communication with non-technical partners.
- Working knowledge of API design, authentication and authorization (e.g., OAuth/OIDC, RBAC), and PII handling.
- Knowledge of reporting tools such as Looker and Hex is a plus

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.

## Equal Employment Opportunity

Palmetto embraces diversity and is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

To ensure a fair evaluation, we may use AI to assist in sorting applications, but all final decisions are made by our hiring team and no candidate dispositions are automated. We will keep your information on file for four years from the date of your application. For detailed information about how we handle your data and our use of AI, please review our full privacy policy.

For more about our Privacy Policy, visit: https://palmetto.com/privacy-policy

## About Palmetto Clean Technology

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Palmetto is a clean energy platform that makes it easy for homeowners to switch to solar, battery storage, HVAC upgrades, and other home electrification solutions while providing financing and energy management tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C - III) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/palmetto-clean-technology)
- **Headquarters**: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/palmetto-clean-technology)
- **Founded**: 2010 [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/palmetto-clean-technology)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Renewable energy, home electrification, clean technology
- **Target Customers**: Homeowners (B2C) and solar/energy installers (B2B partner network)
- **Mission Statement**: "Leading the world towards a clean energy future" and "making cleaner energy a no-brainer—easy to switch, easy to finance, easy to see the savings" [palmetto.com](https://palmetto.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Palmetto Solar**: Full-service solar panel system design, installation, and financing for homeowners. [palmetto.com](https://palmetto.com/products/buy-solar)
- **Battery Storage**: Home battery solutions for energy backup and storage. [palmetto.com](https://palmetto.com/products/energy-storage)
- **HVAC Upgrades**: High-efficiency heating and cooling system replacements. [palmetto.com](https://palmetto.com/products/hvac)
- **Water Heater Upgrades**: Energy-efficient water heater installations.
- **Palmetto Home App**: Mobile app to monitor energy production, consumption, and manage clean energy usage. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/palmetto-clean-technology)
- **Palmetto Marketplace**: Rewards program offering discounts on cutting-edge home products from premium partners. [palmetto.com](https://palmetto.com/)
- **Financing Options**: Flexible payment plans including loans, leases, and power purchase agreements (PPAs) to lower upfront costs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (total funding raised: $1.882B) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/palmetto-clean-technology)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $1.882B across multiple rounds; latest round was Series C - III ($7.18M raised ~9 months ago) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/palmetto-clean-technology)
- **Notable Investors**: Truist, Morgan Stanley, The Rise Fund, Lerer Hippeau, ArcTern Ventures, and 17+ others [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/palmetto-clean-technology)
- **Growth Signals**: Over 97,000 homes powered for a full year*, 109k EV trips around the earth* equivalent in emissions saved, and 76k years of nonstop space heater use* offset. [palmetto.com](https://palmetto.com/about) Currently listing 29 open positions on Greenhouse. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/palmettocleantech)

## Competitive Advantages
- **One-stop shop** for home energy upgrades (solar, battery, HVAC, water heaters) with integrated financing and a digital platform.
- **Proprietary technology** for solar potential assessment, energy monitoring, and customer management.
- **Strong partner network** giving installers access to exclusive financing, prequalified demand, and long-term service contracts.
- **Mission-driven brand** built around simplicity, transparency, and environmental impact.

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate mass adoption of clean energy by removing friction for homeowners (easy switching, financing, and management).
- Expand product offerings beyond solar into whole-home electrification (HVAC, heat pumps, batteries).
- Scale the partner network to drive installer growth and lock in long-term recurring revenue.
- Continue to build out the Palmetto Home app and intelligence platform (including applied AI) to improve customer experience and device performance. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/palmettocleantech)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values clarity, action, adaptability, inclusivity, and "customer first" mentality. Emphasis on collaboration, ownership, and making a real environmental impact. [palmetto.com](https://palmetto.com/careers)
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Some roles are fully remote (e.g., Senior Salesforce Product Manager, Capital Markets roles), while many engineering and leadership roles are based at the Charlotte HQ. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/palmettocleantech)
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision), unlimited PTO (Responsible PTO), stock options, 401(k) with employer match (from day one), generous parental leave, pet insurance, professional development programs, and equity grants. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/palmettocleantech)
- **Perks**: Annual peer-nominated "Grahammy Awards" (named after the canine cofounder), team experiences in Charlotte, and a dog-friendly office. [palmetto.com](https://palmetto.com/careers)
- **Engineering Culture**: Focus on solving complex problems with space to innovate; roles include Senior Product Manager for Intelligence Platform/Applied AI, Software Development Engineer III, and VP of Technical Product Commercialization. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/palmettocleantech)

## Sources
1. [palmetto.com/about](https://palmetto.com/about)
2. [palmetto.com/careers](https://palmetto.com/careers)
3. [palmetto.com/products](https://palmetto.com/)
4. [greenhouse.io - Palmetto Clean Technology Jobs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/palmettocleantech)
5. [cbinsights.com - Palmetto Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/palmetto-clean-technology)

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