Senior Software Engineer — Grid Communications Platform

Convective; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental & Vision

Parental leave

Off the Grid – paid break

Commuter allowance

Company-paid training

Job summary

Gridware Technologies Inc. is scaling the deployment of its device fleet to monitor critical infrastructure and detect real-world fault events.

As a member of the Grid Communications and Platform team, you will design and operate a control system for device data ingestion, processing millions of events daily, and configuration updates. You will collaborate with Firmware, Data Engineering, DevOps, and Operations to shape the platform’s long-term architecture.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate software that is scalable, observable, secure, and fault tolerant.
• Create low-latency, event-driven pipelines for high-volume device telemetry and command processing, and make key architectural decisions.
• Own simulated and hardware-in-the-loop testing software with the Firmware team.
• Collaborate with Data Science and Operations teams to account for environmental and connectivity conditions.
• Lead cross-functional projects to optimize system performance end to end.
• Own observability, monitoring, and incident response to support production reliability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Event-driven

Cloud-native

Linux scripting

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Redpanda

Pulsar

Job description

Gridware Technologies Inc. is scaling the deployment of its device fleet to monitor critical infrastructure and detect real-world fault events.

As a member of the Grid Communications and Platform team, you will design and operate a control system for device data ingestion, processing millions of events daily, and configuration updates. You will collaborate with Firmware, Data Engineering, DevOps, and Operations to shape the platform’s long-term architecture.