Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Gridmatic Inc•Cupertino, CA

6d•$209,000 - $235,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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 Haves

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

Responsibilities

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