Backend Engineer, Go — Power Platform for Utilities

Speedrun Talent Network; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Base is seeking a backend-focused engineer to build the services and APIs behind the Base Power Platform, supporting a geographically distributed battery fleet across utility markets. You will engineer Go services, multi-tenant primitives, and telemetry pipelines on AWS, collaborating with product and trading teams to ensure safe, scalable operations.

You will design typed APIs (Connect/protobuf), implement robust observability, and own deployments from code to production, ensuring high

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend systems.
• Strong API design instincts: typed contracts, versioning, error semantics.
• Solid distributed systems fundamentals: queues, retries, idempotency, backpressure, data consistency.
• Experience moving and serving data at scale: telemetry ingestion, time-series or analytical storage.
• Experience deploying and operating services on AWS with infrastructure as code.
• Experience with multi-tenant systems—authn/z, isolation, and rate limiting.
• Fluency with observability: metrics, logs, traces, production debugging.
• Comfort with edge-connected systems where networks fail and devices disconnect.

Responsibilities

• Build the Go services and Connect/proto APIs behind Base Operators: fleet state, dispatch, schedules, partitions, reporting.
• Design and operate the telemetry path: ingest battery data at fleet scale and serve it to Base Operators and partner APIs.
• Build multi-tenant, partner-facing APIs: authentication, tenant isolation, rate limiting, versioning, onboarding.
• Ensure safety by construction: idempotency, retries, backpressure, data consistency, audit trails.
• Own services in AWS end to end: IaC, queues, databases, deployment, observability.
• Collaborate with product, Trading, and Markets on API shape, dispatch, and guarantees.
• Debug production via logs, traces, metrics and fix issues permanently.

Skills

Backend design

API design

Distributed systems

Observability

Go language

AWS

Tools

Go

Protobuf

gRPC

Connect

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Base is seeking a backend-focused engineer to build the services and APIs behind the Base Power Platform, supporting a geographically distributed battery fleet across utility markets. You will engineer Go services, multi-tenant primitives, and telemetry pipelines on AWS, collaborating with product and trading teams to ensure safe, scalable operations.

You will design typed APIs (Connect/protobuf), implement robust observability, and own deployments from code to production, ensuring high