Senior Distributed Systems Engineer – Grid Communications

Gridware; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental & Vision

Paid parental leave

Alternating day off

Off the Grid, a two week per year paid

Commuter allowance

Company-paid training

Job summary

Gridware, a San Francisco-based technology company, is seeking an engineer to build and operate a control system for our distributed fleet of devices. You will enable high-volume telemetry ingestion, device configuration updates, and support for multiple teams relying on device data.

You will own the end-to-end services, test in production-like environments, and influence architecture decisions as part of the GCAP team, collaborating with Data Engineering, Devops, Firmware, Operations, and Data

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience developing distributed, event-driven systems on cloud-native platforms using Python or Go.
• Experience with Kafka, Kinesis, Redpanda, or Apache Pulsar.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or similar.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate software that is scaleable, observable, secure, and fault tolerant.
• Create low-latency, event-driven pipelines for high-volume device telemetry and command processing, and make key architectural decisions from protocol design to infrastructure.
• Own our simulated and hardware in the loop testing software in collaboration with the Firmware team.
• Collaborate with Data Science and Operations teams to ensure your designs account for a variety of environmental, connectivity, and operating conditions.
• Lead cross functional projects to optimize system performance end to end.
• Own observability, monitoring, and incident response capabilities to support reliable production operations.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Event-driven

Cloud-native

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Job description

Gridware, a San Francisco-based technology company, is seeking an engineer to build and operate a control system for our distributed fleet of devices. You will enable high-volume telemetry ingestion, device configuration updates, and support for multiple teams relying on device data.

You will own the end-to-end services, test in production-like environments, and influence architecture decisions as part of the GCAP team, collaborating with Data Engineering, Devops, Firmware, Operations, and Data