Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

🕒 August 26

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $160k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷 Infrastructure Engineer

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Voltus

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201 - 500 employees

⚡ Energy

🏢 Enterprise

🤝 B2B

Energy • Enterprise • B2B

Voltus is a leading virtual power plant operator and distributed energy resource technology platform. The company pays energy users, including commercial, industrial, and residential sectors, to reduce or shift their electricity usage in response to grid stress, high prices, and high emissions. Operating across all nine wholesale power markets in the US and Canada, Voltus provides demand response solutions that create new revenue streams for energy users while contributing to grid reliability and sustainability. Voltus also offers real-time tracking of cash earnings, payments, energy usage, and avoided CO2 emissions, and has a focus on advancing equitable access to revenue opportunities related to the energy transition.

📋 Description

• Own core platform services and major migrations end to end, from proposal to production • Lead multi-month migrations of stateful, business-critical systems with no customer-visible downtime • Run containerized workloads and the delivery path that ships them, including orchestration, scheduling, GitOps-style deployments, progressive rollout and rollback, and service mesh • Bring Kubernetes practices to a team currently running Nomad and help determine appropriate scheduler usage • Architect and operate the AWS foundation, including multi-account governance, IAM, cross-account access, VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, DNS, certificates, and egress paths • Operate identity, secrets, and encryption infrastructure, including workload identity, least privilege, SSO, OIDC, machine-to-machine credentials, Vault, and key ownership and rotation • Operate stateful systems including database upgrades and replication, message brokers, caches, time-series stores, backups, and tested restores • Build deep observability through distributed tracing, metrics, SLOs, and testing frameworks • Consolidate monitoring tools and define monitoring in code for effective on-call operations • Build infrastructure as code and developer tooling using Terraform, GitHub, Buildkite, Docker, Nomad, and internal tools • Bring manually created infrastructure under code, detect drift, and align code with running infrastructure • Build secure infrastructure and guardrails for AI-assisted development and internal-system access • Collaborate with experienced engineers on backend solutions, APIs, data pipelines, customer interfaces, and systems supporting grid decarbonization

🎯 Requirements

• GitHub account link required in application; applications without a GitHub account will not be considered • Must be authorized to work from the home location in the US or Canada • Voltus does not sponsor visas or transfers for new hires • Strong production software development experience in Go and/or Python • Roughly 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with several years in DevOps / SRE operating production systems • Experience owning deployments and being responsible for reliability and on-call • Track record of owning meaningful infrastructure projects end to end, ideally including stateful or business-critical system migrations with minimal disruption • Deep AWS experience, including multi-account organizations, IAM, cross-account access, VPC and network design, DNS, secrets management, and encryption key management • Understanding of provisioning versus configuration management and least privilege • Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience in production, including upgrades, networking and ingress, RBAC, resource management and autoscaling, and debugging workloads under load • Strong infrastructure-as-code skills using Terraform or similar • Deep monitoring and observability experience, including metrics, alerts, dashboards as code, and distributed tracing • Comfort with Prometheus, Grafana, and log/search clusters such as Elasticsearch or OpenSearch • Hands-on operational experience with relational databases and/or message brokers, including upgrades, replication changes, or restores • Comfort operating and improving systems not originally built by the candidate • Clear communication, documentation, mentoring, and cross-team coordination abilities • Genuine excitement about AI-assisted development; experience with or eagerness to use tools such as Claude Code, MCP, and agents

🏖️ Benefits

• 10% annual bonus • Equity • Unlimited PTO for full-time employees • Parental leave • Comprehensive benefits package to promote health, wellness, and financial security • Fully remote work arrangement