Principal Software Engineer - Platform & IoT for Energy

Yotta Energy; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 105,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Yotta Energy in Austin, TX is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across our platform, guiding architecture decisions to improve reliability, performance, observability, and security, while mentoring the team and shaping reusable patterns that span firmware, hardware, and cloud services.

You will architect web, cloud, and device‑integrated solutions for a distributed Linux fleet, design state machines and device controls, and drive end‑to‑end quality from

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years owning software architecture and distributed systems design decisions at scale.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js, Python, or Go.
• Experience managing and troubleshooting distributed fleets of Linux machines.
• Strong troubleshooting and cross-functional communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural decisions improving 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

Software architecture

Distributed systems

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

Go

Linux

Leadership

Tools

Docker

CI/CD

SQL

Telemetry data

Job description

Yotta Energy in Austin, TX is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across our platform, guiding architecture decisions to improve reliability, performance, observability, and security, while mentoring the team and shaping reusable patterns that span firmware, hardware, and cloud services.

You will architect web, cloud, and device‑integrated solutions for a distributed Linux fleet, design state machines and device controls, and drive end‑to‑end quality from