Senior Software Engineer, Energy Platform

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Contribute to BESS data engineering — building and maintaining telemetry pipelines and stores, and feature ingestion and storage systems for forecasting and optimization
• Design, build, and maintain simulation and training infrastructure — platforms for running and orchestrating simulations at scale
• Develop and operate real-time forecast and optimization workflows, orchestrating pipelines that drive BESS operations
• Support energy market integration, including data ingestion and bid management
• Collaborate across the full stack and across team boundaries to ensure the product system works well as a whole
• Write well-tested, well-monitored software and iteratively improve it over time
• Apply AI tools to accelerate development while maintaining high system design quality and code standards

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

• Strong software design instincts — thinks in systems, reasons from first principles, and understands the real-world challenges of building available, reliable, scalable, and secure distributed systems
• Comfortable using AI tools to move faster without letting them erode system design or code quality
• Excellent collaborator — communicates clearly, listens well, and makes the people around them better
• Bias toward action — takes initiative, makes progress in ambiguous situations, and doesn't wait for perfect information
• Systems thinker and owner — willing to think and collaborate across team boundaries to make sure the product works well as a whole
• Rigorous about quality — writes well-tested, well-monitored software and iterates on it over time
• 2-5 years of experience in software engineering
• Experience with relevant technologies a plus: Kubernetes, Rust, Python, NATS, PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, SQLite