Principal Software Architect: Distributed Systems for Smart Grid

yottaenergy; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Career growth

Professional development

Job summary

Yotta Energy in Austin, TX is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across our platform, guiding architecture decisions that improve reliability, performance, observability, and security. You'll mentor teams, design shared services, and implement patterns that keep products interoperable across firmware, hardware, and cloud.

You’ll architect web, cloud, and device-integrated solutions for a distributed Linux fleet and build fault-tolerant systems that operate

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years owning software architecture and distributed systems design decisions at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural decisions to improve reliability, performance, observability, security, and operational excellence across our product ecosystem
• Be the engineering lead on projects. Working from ideation to implementation to rollout
• Architect web, cloud, and device-integrated solutions across our distributed Linux fleet as part of a unified product experience
• Design state machines, device controls, command/acknowledgment flows, and fail-safe behavior for connected devices
• Build reliable, fault-tolerant systems that gracefully handle connectivity loss, retries, device failures, and offline operation
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Evaluate emerging technologies and apply them to solve complex business and technical challenges
• Mentor engineers and technical leads, and drive adoption of architectural best practices
• Collaborate cross-functionally to troubleshoot issues spanning cloud, network, gateway, and device layers

Skills

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Linux

APIs

Networking

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

CI/CD

SQL

MQTT

Modbus

Job description

Yotta Energy in Austin, TX is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across our platform, guiding architecture decisions that improve reliability, performance, observability, and security. You'll mentor teams, design shared services, and implement patterns that keep products interoperable across firmware, hardware, and cloud.

You’ll architect web, cloud, and device-integrated solutions for a distributed Linux fleet and build fault-tolerant systems that operate