Senior Platform Backend Engineer - Battery Storage

2 weeks, 5 days ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Plus Power

Plus Power

Plus Power develops, owns, and operates utility scale energy storage projects that enhance grid stability and reduce operating costs for electric utility companies.

Electric Utilities
51-250
Founded 2018

Description

  • Design, build, and operate backend services, internal platforms, and shared infrastructure that support data pipelines, analytics, and application workloads.
  • Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable production code, primarily in Python.
  • Partner with application and data engineers to define service boundaries, APIs, data contracts, and operational requirements.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions with an emphasis on long-term maintainability, reliability, and clarity.
  • Architect and operate AWS-based cloud-native systems with a focus on reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
  • Own the full lifecycle of platform and service components, including design, implementation, deployment, observability, and incident response.
  • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to manage cloud assets and operational workflows.
  • Enable and support data platforms, analytics systems, and ML-adjacent workloads through reliable backend and platform services.
  • Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that test, validate, and deploy application and infrastructure code.
  • Establish and maintain observability standards using metrics, logs, and alerts, and participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional experience across platform engineering, backend engineering, data engineering, CloudOps, or SRE roles.
  • Strong backend development experience, including building and operating production services or internal platforms.
  • Significant hands-on experience with AWS, including VPC, IAM, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, and related managed services.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
  • Experience operating containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and automated testing.
  • Strong operational mindset, including comfort owning production systems and participating in on-call rotations.
  • Experience working with relational databases and data-intensive systems.
  • Prior experience on data platform, analytics, or ML infrastructure teams preferred.
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, or streaming data patterns preferred.
  • Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services preferred.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to diverse audiences.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional environment with geographically dispersed technical and non-technical teammates.
  • Ability to stay connected and maintain communication across distributed teams in hybrid or remote settings.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive total compensation.
  • Starting salary begins at $150,000.
  • Eligible for an annual bonus program.
  • Flexible work-from-home or hybrid work arrangement.
  • Work from offices in San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Seattle, New York, Palm Beach, and Birmingham.
  • Unlimited vacation.
  • Work-from-home stipend.
  • Educational assistance.
  • Parental leave.

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