Infrastructure and Security Engineer (Staff / Sr Staff) San Francisco Bay Area or Remote US, Canada

Equilibrium Energy, Inc; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Equilibrium Energy, a fast-growing climate tech company, seeks an experienced Infrastructure and Security Engineer to join their Digital Services team. This role focuses on developing and managing their Digital Platform, ensuring productivity and security for internal and external users. Ideal candidates are passionate about clean energy, with a strong technical background to help build resilient grid solutions. The company offers competitive compensation and a flexible, remote-first work environment.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401k

Meaningful equity grant

Unlimited vacation and flexible work schedule

Remote work opportunity

Professional growth and development opportunities

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS technologies.
• Proficient in software development, preferably in Python.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, develop, and deploy EQ's Digital Platform.
• Manage AWS-centric system using Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Monitor and address security vulnerabilities across the system.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Python

Automation

DevOps methodologies

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Gitlab/Github

Docker

Job description

Infrastructure and Security Engineer (Staff / Sr Staff)

San Francisco Bay Area or Remote US, Canada

About our Company

Equilibrium Energy is revolutionizing the clean energy transition by developing innovative grid-scale energy storage solutions. Our technology and market platform helps utilities, independent power producers, and commercial customers optimize their renewable energy assets, improve grid reliability, and accelerate decarbonization. As a fast-growing climate tech company, we're building infrastructure that will shape the future of energy markets and enable a sustainable energy economy.

Equilibrium Energy is a well-funded, Series B clean energy startup backed by some of the most prominent institutional investors in climate. New colleagues will share our vision that a next-generation energy company must be built from the ground up on deep industry expertise combined with an unwavering commitment to modern digital approaches. We’re looking for collaborative, talented, passionate and resourceful folks to join our team and help us lay the foundation for our important mission and ambitious plan.

What we are looking for

The power sector is undergoing its biggest transformation in a century, and legacy tools were not made to handle this level of complexity.Equilibrium is building a new kind of power companythat can work with an increasingly intricate energy mix, manage large fleets of resources, and integrate algorithmic and human decision-making with sophisticated insights coming from every part of the stack.We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure and Security Engineer to shape and scale this vision, creating the intelligent backbone to power a resilient grid.

What you will do

You will be a member of EQ’s Digital Services team. Our mission is to make our internal users (EQ Engineers and Scientists) and external users (EQ's enterprise customers), productive, happy, and secure by empowering them with a Digital Platform. Our central position within EQ means our actions often have large leverage across technical and non-technical teams at EQ.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define, design, develop, and deploy EQ's Digital Platform
• Manage our AWS-centric system using Terraform
• Mature and harden our Kubernetes-based runtime environment
• Monitor, triage, and address security vulnerabilities across our system
• Manage authorization and access requests
• Share on-call responsibilities with the rest of your team
• Embrace Gen AI tools to help you work better and faster
• Leave your mark. Develop informed, opinionated idea on how things should be, earn buy in from others, and make then them real.

The minimum qualifications you’ll need

• Demonstrated passion for clean energy initiatives and combating climate change.
• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong hands-on experience withKubernetes or other containerized workload platforms.
• Strong practical knowledge of AWS cloud technologies, including IAM, EKS, RDS, and EC2.
• Proficiency in software development, with a preference for Python.
• Familiarity with Security/Compliance audit process (ie SOC 2)
• Experience with automated deployment and orchestration tools like CI/CD pipelines, Gitlab / Github, and Docker.
• Strong inclination towards automation, DevOps methodologies, and fostering collaborative environments, incorporating operational excellence and development best practices.
• Ability to seamlessly integrate into cross-functional teams and adapt to evolving work methodologies.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies or a willingness to learn and apply them effectively.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Nice to have additional skills

• Experience managing Postgres or Databricks at scale.
• Experience implementing test-build-deploy pipelines with Pants V2

Not sure this is the right role for you?

We are a high growth company with accelerating hiring needs so there’s a great chance we’ll be able to create a custom role for you, now or in the future. All roles, titles and compensation packages are tailored to the applicant, so apply anyways and tell us in your cover letter about your dream role.

What we offer

Equilibrium is composed of deeply knowledgeable industry experts across all our functions, with decades of experience in energy-specific commercial structuring, power systems engineering, machine learning, computational research, operations research, distributed and compute-intensive infrastructure, and modern software & ML engineering. Our experience in the space means we’ve previously built versions of nearly every technical component of our platform. We are now designing them better, and combining them in a holistic and novel way, to achieve global scale and climate impact. We pride ourselves on our deeply empathetic & collaborative culture, honest and direct but respectful communication, and our balanced, flexible, and remote-first work environment.

Employee benefits include:

• Competitive base salary and a comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401k package
• Opportunity to own a significant piece of the company via a meaningful equity grant
• Unlimited vacation and flexible work schedule
• Ability to work remotely from anywhere in the United States, Canada & Europe, or join one of our regional hubs in Boston, SF Bay Area, or London
• Accelerated professional growth and development opportunities through direct collaboration and mentorship from leading industry expert colleagues across energy and tech

Equilibrium Energy is a diverse and inclusive, equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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