
Senior Platform Backend Engineer – Battery Storage
Plus Power
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design, build, and operate backend services, internal platforms, and shared infrastructure that enable data pipelines, analytics, and application workloads.
- Apply a strong focus on CI pipeline design, operational reliability, and cloud cost awareness as first-class engineering concerns.
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable production code, primarily in Python.
- Partner with application and data engineers to define service boundaries, APIs, data contracts, and operational requirements.
- Contribute to architectural decisions with an emphasis on long-term maintainability, reliability, and clarity.
- Architect and operate AWS-based, cloud-native systems with an emphasis on reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Own the full lifecycle of platform and service components, including design, implementation, deployment, observability, and incident response.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to manage cloud assets and operational workflows.
- Enable and support data platforms, analytics systems, and ML-adjacent workloads through reliable backend and platform services.
- Design systems that integrate with relational databases, object storage, and event-driven data flows.
- Work closely with data engineers and analysts to ensure systems meet requirements for data correctness, availability, and performance.
- Set and evolve best practices for cloud-based data management through platform design, automation, and standards.
- Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that test, validate, and deploy both application and infrastructure code.
- Establish and maintain observability standards using metrics, logs, and alerts.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead root cause analysis and long-term system improvements following incidents.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience across platform engineering, backend engineering, data engineering, CloudOps, or SRE roles.
- Strong backend development experience, including building and operating production services or internal platforms.
- Prior experience on data platform, analytics, or ML infrastructure teams preferred.
- Significant hands-on experience with AWS, including services such as VPC, IAM, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, and related managed services.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, or streaming data patterns preferred.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation).
- Experience operating containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and automated testing.
- Strong operational mindset, including comfort owning production systems and participating in on-call rotations.
- Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services preferred.
- Experience working with relational databases and data-intensive systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to diverse audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a cross-functional environment with both technical and non-technical team members who are geographically dispersed
- Proven ability to stay connected and maintain communication across distributed teams in hybrid or remote settings.
Benefits
- Highly competitive otal compensation
- Flexible, work from home or hybrid work
- Unlimited vacation
- Educational assistance
- Parental leave
- Highly engaging company culture with opportunities for in-person connection and learning and growth.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonAWSTerraformCI/CDDockerKubernetesrelational databasesevent-driven architecturesautomated testingdata pipelines
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationoperational mindsetproblem-solvingcross-functional teamworkadaptabilityleadershiproot cause analysispresentation skillsincident response