Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Core responsibilities:

• Design and build our compute platform, creating infrastructure that supports production services, batch jobs, and ML training workloads
• Work on real-time systems for operating battery assets, where reliability directly impacts both revenue and grid stability
• Establish patterns, tooling, and best practices that help teams across Gridmatic run services reliably
• Make architectural decisions that shape how we build software as we grow

Our work directly determines when power is bought, stored, or deployed, turning uncertainty into value for customers and the grid. Gridmatic is the most profitable participant in ERCOT's wholesale market and operates the top-performing battery asset in CAISO.

Required skills and experience:

• Significant experience building and operating production infrastructure on a public cloud platform (we run on GCP, but AWS or Azure experience translates well)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (we run on GKE and it's foundational to our platform)
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
• Either already know Go or have experience with a similar systems language (C++, Java, Rust) and are excited to work in Python and Go day-to-day
• Systems thinking—understanding how components interact, where failures can cascade, and how to build for efficiency, scalability, and resilience
• Clear communication, whether writing a design doc, reviewing code, or explaining a complex system to someone new to it
• Opinions about how to build reliable infrastructure, informed by experience with what works and what doesn't at scale

No specific compensation, perks, or culture highlights mentioned in the posting.

Gridmatic is a high-growth startup and a new kind of energy company, delivering affordable, clean power by optimizing renewable energy and grid-scale batteries. With offices in the Bay Area and Houston, we bring together Silicon Valley-style innovation with deep, hands-on expertise in real-world power markets and energy retail.