Principal Software Architect – Grid & Edge Platforms

Yotta Energy Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 158,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Career growth

Innovative clean energy tech

Job summary

Yotta Energy Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across our platform, from architecture decisions to hands-on mentorship. You will help design shared services and reusable patterns, while staying close to firmware and hardware to ensure interoperability across the stack.

You will lead projects end-to-end, architect web, cloud, and device-integrated solutions, and mentor engineers to adopt best practices. Join us to advance grid-scale energy storage tech.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years owning software architecture and distributed systems design decisions at scale.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js, Python, or Go.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, networking, concurrency, Linux, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience managing and troubleshooting distributed fleets of Linux machines.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud, network, gateway, and device layers.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural decisions that improve reliability, performance, observability, security, and operational excellence across our product ecosystem.
• Be the engineering lead on projects 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

Leadership

Distributed systems

Linux

Cloud networking

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional communication

Tools

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

Go

React

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

MQTT/Modbus

SQL

Time-series/Telemetry

Job description

Yotta Energy Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across our platform, from architecture decisions to hands-on mentorship. You will help design shared services and reusable patterns, while staying close to firmware and hardware to ensure interoperability across the stack.

You will lead projects end-to-end, architect web, cloud, and device-integrated solutions, and mentor engineers to adopt best practices. Join us to advance grid-scale energy storage tech.