Job description
**The Role **
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team and build the foundational infrastructure that powers Gridmatic. Our platform challenges are shaped by the nature of energy markets: forecasts and trading decisions run on tight schedules, battery dispatch commands must execute reliably in real time, and ML models need to train and deploy continuously as new data arrives.
**What you'll do: **
- Design and build our compute platform, creating infrastructure that supports production services, batch jobs, and ML training workloads
- Work on real-time systems for operating battery assets, where reliability directly impacts both revenue and grid stability
- Establish patterns, tooling, and best practices that help teams across Gridmatic run services reliably
- Make architectural decisions that shape how we build software as we grow
**What we're looking for: **
- Significant experience building and operating production infrastructure on a public cloud platform (we run on GCP, but AWS or Azure experience translates well)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (we run on GKE and it's foundational to our platform)
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
- Either already know Go or have experience with a similar systems language (C++, Java, Rust) and are excited to work in Python and Go day-to-day
- Systems thinking—understanding how components interact, where failures can cascade, and how to build for efficiency, scalability, and resilience
- Clear communication, whether writing a design doc, reviewing code, or explaining a complex system to someone new to it
- Opinions about how to build reliable infrastructure, informed by experience with what works and what doesn't at scale
**Nice to have: **
- Background in ML infrastructure or training pipelines
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Flyte, Temporal, Airflow, or similar)
- Familiarity with observability tooling (we use Grafana + Google Cloud Monitoring)
- Experience with real-time systems
- Strong Linux fundamentals
- Prior work in domains where latency and reliability have direct business consequences
Taking care of you today:
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Continuing Education Opportunities
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Flexible PTO
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Medical, Dental and Vision plans with competitive employer contributions
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Pre-Tax commuter benefits
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$1500/year non profit donation matching program through Millie
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Home Office Stipend
Protecting your future for you and your family:
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401K contribution match up to 4%
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Company-paid parental leave
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Company Paid Life Insurance
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Stock Option Loan Program
Pay range
$209,000 - $235,000 USD