Sr Software Engineer I

RWE; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

Life Insurance

Short/Long Term Disability

401(k) match

Flexible Spending Accounts

Parental Leave

Paid time off

Holidays and incentives

Job summary

RWE Americas, LLC is seeking a Sr Software Engineer I to own a cloud-native data platform for industrial assets across wind, solar, and storage sites. You will lead end-to-end architecture, drive microservices in Azure, and mentor a growing team of engineers.

You will design high-throughput ETL pipelines, implement AI/ML-driven anomaly detection, and ensure robust security and performance across multi-language stacks (C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript/React).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience in distributed, cloud-native environments.
• Proficiency across C#/.NET, Python, and TypeScript/React; familiarity with Go.
• Hands-on Azure cloud, Kubernetes/AKS, Terraform/Helm, and Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end system design and production-scale microservices on Azure.
• Build ML-driven data processing and anomaly detection for downtime data.
• Architect high-throughput ETL pipelines and low-latency APIs.
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews across multiple languages.
• Establish observability with monitoring, logging, and alerting.

Skills

C#.NET

Python

TypeScript/React

Go

SQL

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

ML/AI basics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE/IT or equivalent

Tools

Azure DevOps

AKS / Kubernetes

Terraform/Helm

REST/WebSockets/AMQP

Airflow

Job description

RWE Americas, LLC

To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent

RWE Americas, LLC To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent Functional area: IT / Digital Remuneration: Exempt

Join RWE America’s Digital Solutions team and lead the critical software architecture driving our grid-scale renewable energy operations technology stack. In this role, you will take end-to-end engineering ownership of a high-throughput, custom data ecosystem connecting live operational assets directly to leadership metrics across 160+ wind, solar, and battery storage sites.

The Sr Software Engineer I's core focus will be evolving an intelligent, predictive data platform that aggregates, normalizes, and categorizes performance downtime events. Acting as a central technical anchor, you will drive a clean, cloud-native microservices architecture, institutionalize high code standards across multiple languages, and provide active technical mentorship to a growing engineering squad.

Role Responsibilities:

• Distributed Architecture: Lead the end-to-end system design, robust implementation, and production scale of secure, event-driven microservices across Azure cloud environments
• Intelligent Automation & AI: Build and mature automated data processing flows, intentionally integrating Machine Learning (ML) anomaly detection models to systematically track, evaluate, and categorize industrial asset downtime
• High-Throughput ETL Pipelines: Architect and scale resilient background ingestion engines and low-latency APIs (REST, WebSockets, AMQP protocols) capable of processing non-stop, continuous, high-volume operational telemetry data flows
• Technical Anchor & Leadership: Translate sophisticated business use cases directly into executable technical blueprints. Conduct comprehensive multi-language code reviews (C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript, Go) to optimize security, code reuse, and overall system reliability
• Proactive Observability: Establish comprehensive monitoring, distributed logging, and real-time alerting systems (utilizing Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure Monitor) to build deep operational insight and radically minimize unplanned production downtime
• Technical Documentation: Architect comprehensive system design documents and technical blueprints, accelerating team velocity, streamlining developer onboarding, and ensuring operational readiness
• Performance & Security: Drive proactive security audits and performance tuning, establishing automated vulnerability remediation and code optimization frameworks across the platform
• Incident Resolution: Lead root-cause analysis for high-priority production incidents, collaborating across engineering teams to implement permanent preventative engineering fixes
• CI/CD & DevOps: Modernize Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines to maximize deployment automation, accelerate release velocity, and improve developer efficiency

Job Requirements and Experience:

• Education Credentials: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related fields—or equivalent proven track record of software engineering excellence in complex systems
• Production Experience: 5+ years of verified software engineering experience handling end-to-end production scale, service isolation, and lifecycle management within distributed, cloud-native enterprise environments
• Multi-Language Polyglot Profile: High production proficiency across C#/.NET, Python, and TypeScript/React stacks, supplemented by a practical working familiarity with Go and robust relational/non-relational SQL database operations
• Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps: Hands-on engineering depth managing Azure cloud environments, production container orchestration (Kubernetes/AKS), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Helm charts), and declarative CI/CD release pipelines via Azure DevOps
• Advanced Data Workflows: Direct hands-on background constructing and managing automated high-volume ETL data jobs, utilizing workflow management schedulers like Apache Airflow.
• AI/ML Framework Integration (Preferred): Practical familiarity deploying, querying, or connecting to downstream data science models, statistical predictive analytics modules, or modern LLM APIs to drive automated multi-variable data classification
• Complex Domain Exposure (Preferred): Prior domain familiarity operating within energy trading, electrical utilities, industrial automation IoT, or equivalent continuous streaming big data platforms

Work Environment:

This position is an office-based role with some travel and visits to other RWE Americas offices and field locations. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. RWE Americas is unable to sponsor or assume visa sponsorship for this specific placement at this time.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. RWE Americas is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.

Benefits offered:

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays. Eligible employees also participate in short-term incentives, in addition to salary.

We look forward to meeting you. Of course, you can find us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Xing, too.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

RWE Americas, a subsidiary of RWE, is a US-based energy company that is helping to meet the growing demand for energy across the United States. Backed by RWE’s 125-year global legacy of managing diverse power assets, RWE Americas operates approximately 13 GW of power projects across 27 states. With a talented workforce of 2,000 employees, RWE Americas develops, constructs and operates wind, solar and battery storage projects, along with natural gas-powered generation, that safely deliver affordable, reliable electricity to our customers. Committed to responsible development, RWE Americas invests in local and rural communities, creating jobs and partnering with stakeholders to support and strengthen the places where we live and work. This is complemented by RWE’s energy trading business. RWE is also a major offtaker of American liquified natural gas (LNG). Learn more about how RWE Americas is generating impact at americas.rwe.com.