Market Infrastructure Engineer

base-power; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Base Power in Austin, Texas is hiring a Market Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate the platform that manages trading algorithms and integrates with electricity markets. The role demands strong backend engineering skills and experience in cloud platforms.

As part of a small, dynamic team, you will ensure the reliability of systems that drive profitability for Base’s fleet of home batteries. Expect to collaborate across various teams, bringing innovative solutions to live market challenges while embracing a startup culture.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Experience with failure-prone or latency-sensitive systems.
• Strong programming skills in backend service languages.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the production stack for trading algorithms.
• Own integrations with ERCOT and other grid operators.
• Build the real-time connection between trading decisions and the fleet.
• Maintain market and telemetry data pipelines.
• Oversee deployment tooling for new algorithms.

Skills

Backend engineering

Infrastructure engineering

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Programming (Go, Python)

Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

CI/CD systems

Job description

About Base

Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.

About the Role

You will own the infrastructure that lets Base's Markets team turn a fleet of home batteries into a single, profitable grid asset.

As a Market Infrastructure Engineer at Base, you will design, build, and operate the platform that runs our production trading algorithms, commands the fleet in real time, and connects Base to wholesale energy markets. This is the layer between the people who decide when and how to trade and the thousands of batteries that actually move power. When the market moves, your systems are what make sure the right decision reaches the right device in time.

This is a high-leverage role. The Markets team is small and its decisions move real money on a continuous basis, so the reliability, latency, and observability of the platform you build directly shape how much value the fleet creates. You will work across the algorithms, market operations, backend, and hardware teams to remove bottlenecks, simplify the systems that sit between a trading decision and a battery, and raise the bar for how safely Base participates in live markets.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and operate the production stack that runs Base's trading algorithms and submits bids and offers into the market.


• Build and own the integrations with ERCOT, the operator that runs Texas's wholesale electricity market, and other grid operators we expand into, covering bidding, telemetry, dispatch, and settlement.


• Build the real-time path between a trading decision and the fleet, so that when an algorithm decides to charge or discharge, that instruction reaches thousands of batteries reliably and on time.


• Build and maintain the market and telemetry data pipelines, plus the observability into trading performance and fleet response, that the team relies on to see what the system is doing.


• Build and improve the simulation and backtesting environment where algorithms are validated before they go live.


• Own how new algorithms ship to production, including the deployment tooling, guardrails, and rollback paths that let the team move quickly without putting real positions at risk.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering on a modern cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.


• Experience working on complex, failure-prone, or latency-sensitive systems, with clear opinions on why they broke down and how to design them better.


• Strong programming skills in languages used for backend services and tooling (e.g., Go, Python), and a solid grasp of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and containerized workloads.


• Experience operating infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) and designing CI/CD systems and software delivery workflows.


• Strong communication and comfort taking broad, evolving ownership in a fast-moving environment, collaborating across algorithms, operations, backend, and hardware teams.


• Bonus: experience with energy markets, real-time control systems, time-series data at scale, workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal), or production trading systems.

About this Team

The Markets team at Base is tasked with ensuring the grid-support performance and profitability of Base’s distributed battery fleet. This encompasses device communications with balancing authorities, telemetry analysis, algorithms for fleet aggregation and economic dispatch, through to financial portfolio management in wholesale energy markets. Our team is made up of physicists, economists, computer scientists, and engineers; the best candidates will bring the day-over-day intensity of an operator with the foresight to drive the long term development of simpler, more performant automated control. Success looks like building the airplane as it falls out of the sky.

Please note: Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly. Your role may expand or change based on the needs of the business at any given time, so the responsibilities listed may not be exhaustive.

Our Values

• First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.


• Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.


• Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, and maintain a growth mindset.


• Everyone’s an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results.


• Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information.


• Committed to the Mission: Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge. We work hard because we care deeply about the impact we’re creating. We work in-person. It’s not a 9-to-5. We are all-in.


• Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit: Collaboration and celebration coincide with the intensity of building real things.

Do the best work of your life at Base.