Backend Engineer: Distributed Systems & Orchestration

Base Power Company; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Base is building America’s next‑generation power grid using distributed batteries. We seek an engineer who can design and operate large distributed systems with strong correctness guarantees.

You will own critical workflows from member intake to operations, balancing consistency, latency, and automation, while communicating clearly with stakeholders. You’ll join a team delivering reliable, observable software that powers onboarding, retail operations, and live telemetry.

Qualifications

• Strong systems and API design fundamentals.
• Deep analytical ability and sound technical judgment.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems with real correctness requirements.
• Comfort reasoning about idempotency, ordering, state machines, reconciliation, observability, and recovery from failure.
• Ability to separate stakeholder requests from underlying system problems.
• Strong written communication and clarity.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed systems that support critical member and operational workflows.
• Define ownership, state, invariants, and failure handling across services and teams.
• Build systems that remain correct under retries, duplicate events, delayed data, and partial failures.
• Make tradeoffs between consistency, availability, latency, and operational complexity.
• Identify bottlenecks and automate manual processes.
• Build infrastructure for experimentation, integrations, and workflow orchestration.
• Stream data into internal and member applications.
• Communicate decisions clearly to engineering and non‑engineering stakeholders.

Skills

Distributed systems

API design

Analytical thinking

Idempotency & state machines

Problem solving

Technical communication

Operational experience

Job description

Base is building America’s next‑generation power grid using distributed batteries. We seek an engineer who can design and operate large distributed systems with strong correctness guarantees.

You will own critical workflows from member intake to operations, balancing consistency, latency, and automation, while communicating clearly with stakeholders. You’ll join a team delivering reliable, observable software that powers onboarding, retail operations, and live telemetry.