Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Build a cloud-native platform for time-series data, real-time event processing, and integrations with simulation, forecasting, optimization, and market modules.
• Own architecture, deployment, and ongoing operation of mission-critical services; improve reliability, security, scalability, and observability.
• Lead engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, performance tuning, and safe updates to live systems.

What they ask for

• 8+ years architecting, implementing, and operating highly available, reliable, secure, and scalable cloud-native real-time backend systems.
• Strong software architecture, distributed systems, concurrency, and security fundamentals; proficiency in at least one backend language.
• Strong experience with REST/gRPC API design, event-driven architectures, time-series data, real-time streaming, and relational and non-relational databases.
• Hands-on containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, deployment automation, and production operations experience; experience with AI-assisted development tools.

Nice to have

• Background in energy, climate tech, power systems, or complex infrastructure, including grid operations.
• Experience with industrial telemetry systems such as SCADA or Ignition.

Pay

$184,000 - $284,000 USD total pay

Tools

Python, Kafka, MQTT, TimescaleDB, Docker, Kubernetes, SCADA, Ignition

AI focus

Collaborate with data scientists and power systems engineers to bring AI-driven solutions from prototype to production; use AI-assisted development tools.