Data Engineer

As a Data Engineer at Uplight, you'll play a central role in designing and maintaining the infrastructure that ingests, transforms, and delivers data across our platform. Your work ensures that data systems are reliable, scalable, observable, and cost-efficient—forming the backbone of many customer-facing and data science-driven solutions.

• Design, build, and maintain platform components on Databricks Lakehouse, Spark, and Python that are reusable across multiple products and teams
• Develop orchestration, metadata management, lineage, and data quality frameworks that improve trust and velocity across the data ecosystem
• Build and support infrastructure for MLOps, including model registries, feature stores, and serving pipelines
• Partner with product engineers, analytics, and data science teams to provide scalable abstractions and self-service tooling

Your work directly impacts our mission of decarbonization and building a more sustainable future. By designing and maintaining data infrastructure, you support solutions that accelerate the transition to clean energy and save money for energy customers.

• 2–5 years of software engineering experience, ideally in data infrastructure or platform roles
• Experience with Databricks, Spark, or similar big data platforms
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for platform and pipeline development
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CircleCI, etc.)
• Strong system design skills and ability to think about scale, reliability, and cost trade-offs
• Collaborative mindset and strong communication skills—comfortable supporting other engineering teams and building tools they love

Salary Range: $100,000 to $125,000 + Bonus

• Make a Meaningful Impact: Your work directly impacts our mission of decarbonization and building a more sustainable future.
• Grow Your Career: We offer ample advancement opportunities, robust learning and development programs, and a supportive team environment that fosters collaboration and innovation.
• Thrive: We offer comprehensive benefits, including flexible time off, generous parental leave, a wellness stipend, and work flexibility to help you thrive both personally and professionally.
• Belong to an Inclusive Community: We celebrate diversity and foster an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, empowered, and heard. Our Employee Resource Groups offer opportunities to connect with colleagues who share your interests and backgrounds.
• Be Part of a Growing Movement: Join a team of dedicated individuals who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future. We offer a collaborative environment where your ideas are valued and your contributions recognized. Together, we can build a brighter tomorrow.

Uplight is creating a new category of energy. We make software that manages energy resources in homes and businesses—including things like smart thermostats, electric vehicles, solar panels, storage batteries, heat pumps, and even people’s behavior—to generate, shift, or save energy to balance the grid, making it more efficient and reliable. This creates clean energy capacity that can be used by the power grid instead of burning more fossil fuels. Our solutions accelerate the transition to clean energy and save money for energy customers.