Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer - Pipelines & Time-Series

Base Power Company; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Base is America’s next-generation power company building the backend data infrastructure for telemetry, market signals, and operations. As a Data Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will own pipelines, schemas, and platforms that move and transform data across the stack.

You’ll collaborate with software, hardware, markets, and operations teams to deliver reliable, scalable data solutions for dashboards, models, and APIs in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or backend engineering with a strong data focus.
• Experience building data infrastructure including data warehouses, data lakes, streaming systems (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks).
• Strong coding skills in Python and SQL; Go or another compiled language is a plus.
• Experience with orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Prefect, dbt).
• Experience integrating diverse data sources—APIs, event streams, relational databases, flat files.
• Focus on data quality, schema design, and building scalable systems for analytics.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code (GCP or AWS, Terraform).
• Comfortable in fast-moving environments with evolving requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain core backend data systems that ingest, transform, and serve data across the company.
• Design, build, and operate reliable batch and streaming data pipelines; own end-to-end ETL.
• Build foundational schemas and canonical datasets for high-volume time-series and event data.
• Manage ingestion across IoT telemetry, APIs, operational systems, and internal services.
• Create platforms to query, explore, and visualize data for cross-functional teams.
• Ensure source-of-truth datasets are consistent and well-governed; improve observability.
• Contribute to evolving data architecture, tooling, and best practices.

Skills

5+ years data engineering

Data infrastructure

Python/SQL

Go (bonus)

Airflow/Prefect/dbt

Data sources integration

Data quality

Cloud IaC (GCP/AWS)

Fast-moving environment

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

Redshift

Databricks

Airflow

Prefect

dbt

Terraform

GCP

AWS

Job description

Base is America’s next-generation power company building the backend data infrastructure for telemetry, market signals, and operations. As a Data Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will own pipelines, schemas, and platforms that move and transform data across the stack.

You’ll collaborate with software, hardware, markets, and operations teams to deliver reliable, scalable data solutions for dashboards, models, and APIs in a fast-moving environment.