Senior Platform Backend Engineer – Battery Storage

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and manage backend services, internal platforms, and shared infrastructure that facilitate data pipelines, analytics, and application workloads.

• Maintain a strong emphasis on CI pipeline design, operational reliability, and cloud cost awareness as fundamental engineering priorities.

• Produce high-quality, maintainable, and testable production code, primarily utilizing Python.

• Collaborate with application and data engineers to establish service boundaries, APIs, data contracts, and operational requirements.

• Participate in architectural decision-making with a focus on long-term maintainability, reliability, and clarity.

• Design and manage AWS-based, cloud-native systems with a focus on reliability, security, performance, and cost-effectiveness.

• Oversee the complete lifecycle of platform and service components, including design, implementation, deployment, observability, and incident management.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to oversee cloud assets and operational workflows.

• Facilitate and support data platforms, analytics systems, and ML-adjacent workloads through robust backend and platform services.

• Create systems that integrate with relational databases, object storage, and event-driven data flows.

• Collaborate closely with data engineers and analysts to guarantee systems meet requirements for data accuracy, availability, and performance.

• Establish and refine best practices for cloud-based data management through platform design, automation, and standards.

• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines that test, validate, and deploy both application and infrastructure code.

• Set up and uphold observability standards using metrics, logs, and alerts.

• Take part in on-call rotations and lead root cause analysis and long-term system enhancements following incidents.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of professional experience in platform engineering, backend engineering, data engineering, CloudOps, or SRE roles.

• Extensive backend development experience, including the creation and management of production services or internal platforms.

• Previous experience with data platform, analytics, or ML infrastructure teams is preferred.

• Considerable hands-on experience with AWS, encompassing services like VPC, IAM, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, and related managed services.

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, or streaming data patterns is preferred.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation).

• Proficient in operating containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in production settings.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and automated testing.

• An operational mindset, including comfort with owning production systems and participating in on-call rotations.

• Prior experience building or evolving internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services is preferred.

• Experience working with relational databases and data-intensive systems.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the capacity to convey complex technical information to diverse audiences.

• Proven ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional environment with both technical and non-technical team members across various locations.

• Demonstrated capability to maintain communication and stay connected with distributed teams in hybrid or remote settings.

🏝️ Benefits

• Highly competitive total compensation

• Flexible work arrangements, including remote or hybrid work from Plus Power’s offices in San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Seattle, New York, Palm Beach, and Birmingham.

• Unlimited vacation policy

• Work from home stipend

• Educational assistance

• Parental leave

• A vibrant company culture with opportunities for in-person connection, learning, and growth.