Go Backend Engineer - Fleet Telemetry & APIs

Base Power; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Base is hiring a backend engineer to build the services and APIs that power the Base Power Platform. You will design Go services and typed APIs, move fleet telemetry at scale, and implement multi-tenant primitives that connect utility partners with Base without bespoke engineering.

This role sits between software decisions and physical batteries in homes, requiring careful attention to correctness, reliability, and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend systems with Go or similar languages.
• Strong API design instincts with typed contracts and versioning.
• Solid distributed systems fundamentals including queues and backpressure.
• Experience moving and serving data at scale (telemetry or time-series).
• Experience deploying services on AWS with infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with multi-tenant auth/isolation and rate limiting.
• Fluency in observability: metrics, logs, traces, production debugging.

Responsibilities

• Build Go services and Connect/proto APIs behind Base Operators: fleet state, dispatch, schedules, partitions, performance reporting.
• Ingest battery telemetry at fleet scale and serve it to operators and partner APIs.
• Create multi-tenant, partner-facing APIs with authentication, tenant isolation, and versioning.
• Ensure control paths are safe via idempotency, retries, and data consistency.
• Own AWS-based services end-to-end with IaC, queues, databases, deployment, and observability.
• Collaborate with product engineers on API shapes and front-end compatibility.
• Coordinate with Trading and Markets on dispatch and performance guarantees.
• Diagnose production issues from logs and traces and implement lasting fixes.

Skills

Go

API design

Distributed systems

Telemetry ingestion

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

Multi-tenant

Observability

Edge systems

Technical writing

Tools

Connect

protobuf

gRPC

Job description

Base is hiring a backend engineer to build the services and APIs that power the Base Power Platform. You will design Go services and typed APIs, move fleet telemetry at scale, and implement multi-tenant primitives that connect utility partners with Base without bespoke engineering.

This role sits between software decisions and physical batteries in homes, requiring careful attention to correctness, reliability, and performance.