Senior Software Engineer, Grid Communications Platform

Gridware; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 2,150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental & Vision

Parental leave

Off the Grid breaks

Commuter allowance

Company-paid training

Job summary

Gridware, a San Francisco-based technology company protecting the electrical grid, is scaling the deployment of its devices. You will develop a control system for our distributed fleet, enabling low-latency, event-driven communication and handling millions of events per day.

As a GCAP team member, you will own, test, operate, and plan the future of our services end to end, partnering with Firmware, Data Engineering, DevOps, and Data Science to influence architecture and tradeoffs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building distributed, event-driven systems on cloud-native platforms.
• Experience with Kafka, Kinesis, Redpanda, or Apache Pulsar.
• Strong Linux, scripting, and troubleshooting skills with the ability to debug complex production issues end-to-end.

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 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 account for 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

Kafka/Kinesis/ Pulsar

Observability tools

Linux scripting

Communication

Job description

Gridware, a San Francisco-based technology company protecting the electrical grid, is scaling the deployment of its devices. You will develop a control system for our distributed fleet, enabling low-latency, event-driven communication and handling millions of events per day.

As a GCAP team member, you will own, test, operate, and plan the future of our services end to end, partnering with Firmware, Data Engineering, DevOps, and Data Science to influence architecture and tradeoffs.