Senior Software Engineer, Grid Communications
Role Overview
Join the Grid Communications and Platform team to develop a control system for a distributed fleet of devices.
The system supports high-volume event ingestion, sensor data retrieval, device configuration updates, and downstream teams that rely on device data.
The engineer will own, test, operate, and plan services end-to-end and influence long-term architecture and tradeoffs.
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About Gridware
Gridware develops active grid response technology to monitor electrical, physical, and environmental conditions affecting grid reliability and safety.
Its platform uses high-precision sensors to identify potential issues early and support proactive maintenance and fault mitigation.
Role description
Join the Grid Communications and Platform team to develop a control system for a distributed fleet of devices.
The system supports high-volume event ingestion, sensor data retrieval, device configuration updates, and downstream teams that rely on device data.
The engineer will own, test, operate, and plan services end-to-end and influence long-term architecture and tradeoffs.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and operate scalable, observable, secure, fault-tolerant software.
- Create low-latency event-driven pipelines for high-volume device telemetry and command processing.
- Make architectural decisions from protocol design through infrastructure.
- Own simulated and hardware-in-the-loop testing software with the Firmware team.
- Collaborate with Data Science and Operations to account for varied environmental, connectivity, and operating conditions.
- Lead cross-functional performance-optimization projects.
- Own observability, monitoring, and incident-response capabilities for reliable production operations.
Required skills
- 5+ years developing distributed, event-driven systems on cloud-native platforms using Python or Go.
- Experience with Kafka, Kinesis, Redpanda, Apache Pulsar, or similar technologies at scale.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Loki.
- Strong communication skills and ability to navigate ambiguity.
Bonus skills
- Production experience optimizing TCP, UDP, or QUIC transport protocols; understanding of networking, DNS, TLS, or DTLS.
- Experience with distributed physical, IoT, or sensing systems; Apollo Router or GraphQL federation gateways.
- Expertise with Kubernetes, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience in a high-growth startup environment. The description notes applicants need not meet every listed ideal qualification.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision plans, with some plans fully covered.
- Paid parental leave and an alternating day off every other Monday.
- Two-week annual paid “Off the Grid” break, commuter allowance, and company-paid training.
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