Plus Power is seeking a Senior Platform Backend Engineer to join their technology team. The successful candidate will work on building reliable, scalable systems that support asset operations, analytics, and power market participation.
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 total compensation
- Flexible, work from home or hybrid work from Plus Power’s offices
- Comprehensive benefits program
- Unlimited vacation
- Flexible remote work
- Work from home stipend
- Educational assistance
- Parental leave
- Engaging company culture with opportunities for in-person connection and learning and growth
