Principal Software Engineer

About Yotta Energy

AI is driving explosive growth in data center demand, and the electricity grid that powers it is undergoing its biggest transformation in a century. Meeting that demand while accelerating the shift to clean energy will take more than new generation - it will take smarter, more flexible infrastructure that can balance supply and demand in real time.

Yotta Energy is building that infrastructure. We design and deploy the hardware and software behind commercial-scale distributed energy resources (DER), and we're now aggregating that fleet into Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) - networks of batteries and solar assets that act as a single, intelligent resource for the grid. It's a direct, tangible way to support the clean energy transition: turning distributed storage into grid-scale flexibility, unlocking new value for our customers, and helping the grid absorb the load growth AI itself is creating.

We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across our platform, from architecture decisions that improve reliability, performance, observability, and security, to hands-on mentorship that raises the bar for the whole team. You'll help design shared services and reusable patterns that keep our products interoperable and consistent, while staying close to the firmware, hardware and systems that make our platform work in the real world.

• Lead architectural decisions that improve reliability, performance, observability, security, and operational excellence across our product ecosystem
• Be the engineering lead on projects. Working from ideation to implementation to rollout
• Architect web, cloud, and device-integrated solutions across our distributed Linux fleet as part of a unified product experience
• Design state machines, device controls, command/acknowledgment flows, and fail-safe behavior for connected devices
• Build reliable, fault-tolerant systems that gracefully handle connectivity loss, retries, device failures, and offline operation
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Evaluate emerging technologies and apply them to solve complex business and technical challenges
• Mentor engineers and technical leads, and drive adoption of architectural best practices
• Collaborate cross-functionally to troubleshoot issues spanning cloud, network, gateway, and device layers

• 10+years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years owning software architecture and distributed systems design decisions at scale

• Strong proficiency in Type Script/Node.js, Python, or Go
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, networking, concurrency, Linux, and event-driven architectures
• Experience managing and troubleshooting distributed fleets of Linux machines
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud, network, gateway, and device layers
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional communication skills

• Experience with React and building complex, stateful web applications
• Experience with AWS, cloud-native architectures, serverless, and modern integration patterns
• Experience with IoT/edge systems and hardware communication protocols (MQTT, Modbus, or similar)
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD, SQL, and time-series/telemetry data
• Experience with automated testing, observability, and production deployments
• Energy, ESS, solar, inverter, EV charging, DER, SCADA, or industrial IoT experience preferred but not required

• Prefer to work independently without collaborating across teams
• Struggle with ambiguity, competing priorities, or tight deadlines
• Aren’t willing to roll up your sleeves and help wherever needed
• Avoid accountability or have difficulty receiving and acting on feedback