Senior Platform Backend Engineer – Battery Storage

🕒 May 14

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Plus Power

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51 - 200 employees

⚡ Energy

💰 $219M Debt Financing on 2021-11

Energy

Plus Power is a company committed to transforming the electric grid by developing, owning, and operating battery energy storage systems that provide efficient and reliable grid services. With projects in over 28 U. S. states and Canadian provinces, it enhances grid stability by storing excess energy and injecting it back into the grid during peak demand. Plus Power's battery facilities, such as the Kapolei Energy Storage project and the Sierra Estrella Energy Storage facility, demonstrate significant achievements in renewable integration and grid resilience. The company plays a pivotal role in solving climate challenges by offering flexible and fast-dispatch energy solutions, uniquely providing power plant-like services at scale. Plus Power's initiatives ensure enhanced power reliability and energy resilience, supporting the transition to sustainable energy sources and aiding grids in managing renewable energy more effectively.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate backend services, internal platforms, and shared infrastructure that enable data pipelines, analytics, and application workloads. • Apply a strong focus on CI pipeline design, operational reliability, and cloud cost awareness as first-class engineering concerns. • 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 an emphasis 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. • Design systems that integrate with relational databases, object storage, and event-driven data flows. • Work closely with data engineers and analysts to ensure systems meet requirements for data correctness, availability, and performance. • Set and evolve best practices for cloud-based data management through platform design, automation, and standards. • Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that test, validate, and deploy both application and infrastructure code. • Establish and maintain observability standards using metrics, logs, and alerts. • Participate in on-call rotations and lead root cause analysis and long-term system improvements following incidents.

🎯 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. • Prior experience on data platform, analytics, or ML infrastructure teams preferred. • Significant hands-on experience with AWS, including services such as VPC, IAM, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, and related managed services. • Familiarity with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, or streaming data patterns preferred. • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (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 building or evolving internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services preferred. • Experience working with relational databases and data-intensive systems. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to diverse audiences. • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a cross-functional environment with both technical and non-technical team members who are geographically dispersed. • Proven ability to stay connected and maintain communication across distributed teams in hybrid or remote settings.

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive total compensation • Flexible, work from home or hybrid work from Plus Power’s offices in San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Seattle, New York, Palm Beach and Birmingham. • Unlimited vacation • Work from home stipend • Educational assistance • Parental leave • Highly engaging company culture with opportunities for in-person connection and learning and growth.