Systems Reliability Engineer - Charging

Valid8 Financial, Inc.; North Carolina; On-site; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Bonus programs

Job summary

IONNA is seeking a Systems Reliability Engineer focused on charging quality to ensure reliable operations of the charging network in Durham, NC. This full-time onsite role reports to the Director of Charging Quality and requires a rigorous analytical approach.

The position offers a target base range of $80,000–$90,000 and a compensation package commensurate with experience, including benefits as described. U.S. citizenship or permanent residency is required for consideration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, CS, Data Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 3 years of root cause analysis experience in software/hardware/IoT environments.
• Strong SQL and data analytics skills.
• Experience with observability/log-analysis platforms such as Kibana, Elastic, Splunk, Datadog, Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Monitor charging network performance and identify issues before they impact customers.
• Translate customer observations into measurable technical investigations with evidence.
• Investigate charging failures using telemetry, logs, and transaction data.
• Correlate findings across hardware, CPMS, payment systems, and backend services; document evidence.

Skills

SQL

Data analysis

Telemetry/logs

Observability tools

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Kibana

Elastic

Splunk

Datadog

Grafana

Job description

Reports To: Director of Charging Quality

This role requires a full-time onsite presence in Durham, NC

Target Base Range: $80 - 90k (Final compensation commensurate with experience and qualifications)

Please note: We are only able to consider candidates who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents (green card holders) and who do not require current or future visa sponsorship of any sort.

Job Summary

Mission

KPIs

• First Attempt Success
• Charge Session Success Rate
• Network MTBF / MTTR
• Time to Detect & Triage
• RCA Quality and Accuracy
• Engineering Escalations Accepted on First Submission

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor charging network performance and identify emerging customer-impacting issues before they become widespread. Detect patterns across charger models, firmware versions, vehicle OEMs, payment systems, and charging locations. Distinguish systemic issues from isolated site, vehicle, or environmental events.
• Translate customer complaints and operational observations into measurable technical investigations. Monitor the effectiveness of telemetry, analytics, and failure-classification systems.
• Investigate charging failures using telemetry, charger diagnostics, session logs, backend application logs, payment data, and protocol transactions. Reconstruct charging-session timelines to determine where and why failures occurred. Validate or challenge assumptions using evidence from raw data rather than dashboards alone.
• Correlate findings across charger hardware, firmware, CPMS platforms, payment systems, vehicle communications, and backend services. Analyze protocol-level interactions including OCPP, OCPI, ISO 15118, DIN 70121, and IEC 61851. Document findings with supporting evidence and reproducible analysis.

Engineering Feedback & Quality Improvement

• Deliver concise, evidence-based recommendations to Engineering. Quantify customer impact and business impact of identified issues. Identify software defects, implementation gaps, integration failures, protocol issues, and configuration problems.
• Recommend corrective actions including software fixes, firmware updates, monitoring enhancements, and process improvements. Validate fixes after deployment and monitor for regressions.
• Escalate issues to charger manufacturers, CPMS providers, payment vendors, OEMs, and technology partners with complete supporting evidence. Identify recurring patterns across incidents and surface systemic issues for prioritization.
• Recommend improvements to monitoring, alerting, and analytics that reduce detection and investigation time.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• A minimum of three years of experience performing root cause analysis of customer-impacting failures in software, hardware, IoT, automotive, payments, SaaS, or distributed systems environments.
• Proficient SQL and data analysis skills.
• Proven ability to diagnose issues using telemetry, logs, diagnostics, and system data to identify validated root causes.
• Experience with observability and log-analysis platforms such as Kibana, Elastic, Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, or similar.
• Ability to synthesize evidence across multiple systems and communicate findings clearly and concisely.

Preferred, but Not Required

• EV charging experience.
• Knowledge of OCPP 1.6J, OCPI, ISO 15118, DIN 70121, and IEC 61851.
• Experience with connected devices, automotive systems, IoT platforms, payment systems, or reliability engineering.
• Experience with BI and analytics tools such as Superset.
• Experience using AI-assisted analysis and automation workflows.

Success in This Role Looks Like

• Emerging charging issues are identified before they become widespread customer problems. Charging failures are consistently traced to validated root causes rather than symptoms. Engineering receives actionable findings that require minimal rework.
• Vendor escalations are accepted and actioned because the evidence package is complete. Customer charging reliability improves through engineering changes driven by investigation insights.
• The Systems Reliability Engineer becomes the trusted voice of technical truth for charging quality and reliability across the organization.

IONNA is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices through a competitive base salary, as well as offering bonus programs, comprehensive benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, 401(K), and paid holidays. Actual base salaries are based on several factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, experience, certifications and specific work location.

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. IONNA is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.