What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer: Device Communications position at Gridware?
About Gridware
Gridware exists to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everything and the consequences can be dire when it fails: wildfires burn, land is destroyed, property is damaged, and lives are lost.
Our team created an advanced sensing system to continuously analyze critical grid behavior. Utilizing high-precision sensor arrays and intelligence, our system identifies and preemptively mitigates faults. The technology has been proven with utilities to bolster safety, enhance reliability, and reduce outages. The demand for power will only increase. We protect the grid of today while we build the grid of tomorrow.
Gridware is privately held and backed by the best climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. We are headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Role Description
In this role, you will lead development of our cloud services to enable command and control of our fleet of millions of devices. You will work closely with our Firmware, Circuit and Fault Intelligence, and Fleet Management teams to enable crossfunctional needs for overall system behavior. This is a critical role where your decisions will directlyimpact global system behavior and our grid monitoring capabilities.
- 5 years of professional software engineering experience in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies
- Ability to thrive in a low structure, high-autonomy environment with competing priorities
- You’ve built something from the ground up with broad ownership
- Experience with Python, GraphQL, React, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Linux systems, and containerization technologies
- Experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus
- Experience architecting cloud services communicating with fleets of devices under power/network constraints
- Experience working with Protobuf
- Experience with networking fundamentals, ie TCP/IP internals
- Experience or interest in working with LoRaWAN
This describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply!
Benefits
Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)
Paid parental leave
Alternating day off (every other Monday)
“Off the Grid”, a two week per year paid break for all employees.
Commuter allowance
Company-paid training
