Heron Power
Staff/Senior Staff Software Engineer
$180K–$240K
Scotts Valley · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 13, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time at Staff or Principal IC level.
- Education
- Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent demonstrated experience will be considered.
About the job
Sets technical direction and builds the software platform, infrastructure, and internal systems that support Heron Power’s factory, supply chain, engineers, and operators.
What you'll do
- Architect and ship backend services, data pipelines, APIs, internal tools, and scalable platform systems.
- Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes deployments, observability, security, and reliability practices.
- Lead technical decisions and cross-functional projects; raise engineering standards through reviews and mentorship.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent demonstrated experience will be considered.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time at Staff or Principal IC level owning large production systems.
- Deep production expertise in backend services and distributed systems, plus proficiency in one or more modern programming languages.
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security, and operational best practices.
Nice to have
- Experience building software for manufacturing, supply chain, hardware, or physical-world operations.
- Experience with greenfield platforms, SQL and data pipelines, event-driven systems, Linux, or third-party SaaS integrations.
Pay
$180,000 to $240,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Terraform, Pulumi, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, Go
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