Staff Platform Architect (Remote/Hybrid) with Stock Options

Podero; United States; Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Remote or hybrid

25 days annual leave

Off-sites and travel budget

Job summary

Podero is seeking a Staff Engineer to own and shape the architecture of our energy platform. You will design scalable backend systems and orchestrate thousands of devices, ensuring reliability and observability while collaborating with Product to align technical direction with business goals.

You will work across platform primitives, APIs, and integrations with hardware and control systems, breaking problems into iterative steps and delivering impact in a fast-moving startup environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep ownership of major systems or projects.
• Proven experience designing and operating complex, reliable, production-grade platforms at scale.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Experience building external API integrations with hardware systems, control logic, or IoT ecosystems.
• High autonomy in fast-moving startup environments where speed, ownership, and clarity matter.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with Product, Engineering, and customers to shape technical decisions.
• Curiosity for the energy domain, flexible consumption, and orchestrating real-world devices reliably.

Responsibilities

• Own multi-month engineering projects end-to-end, from architectural approach to deployment and iteration.
• Design and evolve Podero's platform architecture to scale to millions of devices with high reliability and observability.
• Build core backend systems handling real-time orchestration, telemetry processing, scheduling, and integration logic.
• Develop and integrate external APIs from energy hardware, IoT devices, and control systems into a unified orchestration layer.
• Drive platform reliability through tracing, monitoring, failover strategies, and performance optimizations.
• Shape product direction by collaborating with Product to align commercial goals with technical feasibility.
• Break large problems into small, testable pieces and ship value continuously.
• Collaborate with customers to understand workflows and match platform capabilities to energy domain complexity.
• Uphold engineering excellence through design reviews, code reviews, and sharing best practices.

Skills

Distributed systems

Reliability

Scalability

Observability

External API integrations

Tools

Python

Rust

Event-driven systems

GCP

Job description

Podero is seeking a Staff Engineer to own and shape the architecture of our energy platform. You will design scalable backend systems and orchestrate thousands of devices, ensuring reliability and observability while collaborating with Product to align technical direction with business goals.

You will work across platform primitives, APIs, and integrations with hardware and control systems, breaking problems into iterative steps and delivering impact in a fast-moving startup environment.