Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

Founded in 2007, Tigo is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of smart hardware and software solutions that enhance safety, increase energy yield, and lower operating costs of residential, commercial, and utility-scale solar systems. Tigo combines its Flex MLPE (Module Level Power Electronics) and solar optimizer technology with intelligent, cloud-based software capabilities for advanced energy monitoring and control. Tigo MLPE products maximize performance, enable real-time energy monitoring, and provide code-required rapid shutdown at the module level.

The Company also develops and manufactures products such as inverters and battery storage systems for the residential solar-plus-storage market.

We need top-notch individuals with a passion for solving complex problems and bringing renewable energy to the masses. Members of the team enjoy rewarding salaries, excellent benefits, an uninhibited work culture, and the satisfaction of helping to reduce the world's dependency on fossil fuels. We work hard knowing our results will impact the affordability, reliability, and safety of clean and renewable energy systems.

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to help operate, improve, and scale Tigo Energy's hybrid technology platform. Our on-prem colocation environment is the primary infrastructure environment, supported by Microsoft Azure for secondary cloud workloads.

The role is approximately evenly divided between platform engineering, including Kubernetes, Git Lab, Git Ops, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and observability; and hands-on work with Linux systems, networking, storage, server hardware, and colocation operations. This is not a cloud-only position; hands-on infrastructure work is an essential part of the role.

We are open to candidates at different experience levels and will calibrate scope and responsibilities accordingly. We do not expect applicants to have professional experience with every technology in our environment. Strong fundamentals, practical curiosity, structured troubleshooting, and the ability to learn unfamiliar systems are more important than matching a long checklist of tools.

This Bay Area position requires visits to our colocation facility several times per month for planned infrastructure work, maintenance, troubleshooting, or incident response.

Hands-on colocation work is an essential function of the position. With or without reasonable accommodation, the engineer must work safely around server racks, handle cabling, install or replace components, and move equipment using appropriate tools or assistance.

The role includes shared on-call coverage and occasional after-hours maintenance. Scheduling may evolve as coverage needs change; current expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

• Operate and improve the hybrid platform anchored in our colocation environment, with supporting workloads and services in Azure.
• Support Linux systems, Kubernetes clusters, networking, storage, databases, and production services across development and operational environments.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code and configuration workflows using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Improve Git Lab CI/CD and Git Ops workflows, including build pipelines, release promotion, deployment verification, and rollback processes using tools such as Helm, Argo CD, or Flux.
• Install, maintain, and troubleshoot physical infrastructure, including servers, storage, network equipment, cabling, disks, firmware, and out-of-band management systems; coordinate with vendors and remote hands when appropriate.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, and operational visibility using platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, centralized logging, and related observability tools.
• Support data and storage platforms such as PostgreSQL, Click House, Redis, Ceph, NFS, and S3-compatible object storage, including backup, recovery, capacity, and availability considerations.
• Strengthen infrastructure security through access controls, secrets management, patching, vulnerability management, audit logging, backup, and disaster-recovery practices.
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