Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Connected IoT Systems

Heron Power Inc.; Scotts Valley (CA); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Heron Power Inc. is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to help build scalable Connected Systems software for grid-connected energy systems. You will own components across edge devices, cloud, and data pipelines, delivering secure and reliable services.

Collaborate with embedded, hardware, test, manufacturing, and frontend teams to enable telemetry, diagnostics, and over-the-air firmware updates in challenging environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering with ownership of significant distributed system components.
• Experience delivering complex software products from design through production deployment.
• Experience building or contributing to industrial IoT, telemetry, fleet management, or large-scale connected systems.
• Strong experience designing and implementing backend services in Python, Go, Rust, Java, or similar languages.
• Experience building telemetry ingestion, stream processing, or event-driven systems using Kafka or cloud-native equivalents.
• Solid understanding of APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and data platform design.
• Experience collaborating across firmware, hardware, manufacturing, test, and software teams.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable backend services and data platforms for industrial IoT deployments.
• Build telemetry ingestion, processing, storage, and analytics pipelines supporting fleet monitoring and system fault analysis.
• Develop services and workflows for diagnostics, remote troubleshooting, asset lifecycle tracking, and over-the-air firmware updates.
• Implement APIs, event-driven services, and data models that enable reliable integration across Connected Systems, Firmware, Manufacturing, and System Test.
• Contribute to software quality through code reviews, testing strategies, observability, and operational excellence.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend languages

Kafka streaming

APIs & cloud

Production debugging

Job description

Heron Power Inc. is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to help build scalable Connected Systems software for grid-connected energy systems. You will own components across edge devices, cloud, and data pipelines, delivering secure and reliable services.

Collaborate with embedded, hardware, test, manufacturing, and frontend teams to enable telemetry, diagnostics, and over-the-air firmware updates in challenging environments.