Senior Software Engineer​/Full Stack Engineer

Job Description

Gridware exists to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everyone and makes our modern economy possible. But it’s also fragile. When the grid goes down, everything grinds to a halt, and the consequences can be dire: wildfires burn, land is destroyed, property is damaged, progress stops, and lives are lost.

Our team builds smart sensors that help utility companies to immediately detect, find, and fix outages and take steps to prevent new outages from happening. The need for power will only increase. We protect the grid of today while we build the grid of tomorrow.

Gridware is privately held and backed by the best climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors in the world. We are headquartered in the Bay Area in northern California.

• Design and implementation of systems to support concurrent command and control of millions of devices
• Design and implementation of systems enabling in-depth observability of the health, behavior, and history of our distributed device fleet
• Design and implementation of both customer-facing features and internal tools
• Collaborate closely with firmware engineers, manufacturing engineers, data team, and product designers to deliver software that advances our systems and acts as a multiplier for the rest of the company
• Contribute to improving development workflows and best practices
• Thrive in a tightly integrated, lightning-paced team of high-energy and deeply committed individuals

• 5+ years’ experience with Python backend development
• Experience building scalable, distributed applications on one of the major cloud providers (AWS preferred)
• Experience working with event driven architectures and data streaming frameworks such as Kafka, Kinesis, SNS/SQS
• Proficiency with SQL and experience with GraphQL
• Proficiency with React and Typescript
• Proficiency with observability tooling such as New Relic, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Demonstrated ability to construct scalable ingestion pipelines and APIs
• Comfortable developing in Linux environments with an understanding of networking, file systems, and scripting
• Knowledge of version control, automated deployments, and testing pipelines
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker / ECS / Kubernetes

We offer competitive benefits that help employees thrive and grow. These benefits include:

• Flexible starting hours to reduce commute
• Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum plans fully covered)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Company-paid training to upgrade your skills
• Free parking and a commuter allowance

Gridware is an equal opportunity employer. We want applicants of diverse backgrounds and hire without regard to color, gender, religion, national origin, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Gridware is currently located in Walnut Creek but will be headquartered in San Francisco starting January 2025.