Plus Power

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