Senior Platform Backend Engineer - Battery Storage
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Plus PowerEnergy Storage
Flexible, work from home or hybrid work from Plus Power’s offices in San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Seattle, New York, Palm Beach and Birmingham.Full-TimeSenior
SalaryThe expected salary range* for this position begins at $150,000. This position is also eligible to participate in our annual bonus program.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPythonSQLKubernetesCI/CDTerraform
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in platform, backend, data engineering, CloudOps, or SRE roles.
- Strong proficiency in Python for production-grade software development.
- Significant hands-on experience with AWS services (VPC, IAM, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3).
- Experience managing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
- Experience operating containerized workloads in production with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and automated testing.
- Experience working with relational databases and data-intensive systems.
- Solid operational mindset with experience in on-call rotations and production system ownership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
- Experience with event-driven architectures or streaming data patterns is preferred.
- Experience building internal developer platforms is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services, internal platforms, and shared infrastructure for data pipelines and analytics.
- Architect and operate AWS-based, cloud-native systems with a focus on reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable production code in Python.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to manage cloud assets.
- Manage the full lifecycle of components including design, implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Establish and maintain observability standards using metrics, logs, and alerts.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead root cause analysis for system improvements.
- Partner with application and data engineers to define service boundaries, APIs, and data contracts.
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