Staff Software Platform Engineer

Number of employees

380

Berkeley, CA or Pittsburgh, PA or Somerville, MA, USA

Posted on: 2022-12-01

Category: renewables

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Form Energy is developing a new class of cost-effective, multi-day energy storage systems that will enable a reliable and fully-renewable electric grid year-round. Our pioneering battery technology will entirely reshape the global electric system and give it new form.

Learn more about Form Energy at https://www.formenergy.com.  

We’re always looking for outstanding people to join our team. If you’re interested, please visit https://formenergy.com/careers/.

Are you ready to rise to the challenge of climate change with the team that will deliver? Form Energy is a U.S. technology and manufacturing company that is developing and commercializing pioneering energy storage technologies to enable the electric grid to run on 100% renewable energy, every day of the year.

Supported by leading investors such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures, ArcelorMittal, TPG Rise, MIT’s The Engine, and others, we share a common belief that low-cost, multi-day energy storage is the key to enable tomorrow’s zero carbon electric grid. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, we are deeply motivated and inspired to create a better world. We need talented, hardworking individuals who share our goal of tackling the challenge of climate change. Do you want to work with us today to build a better tomorrow? 

Role Description
The Platform team, within our Software Engineering team, is responsible for deploying and maintaining common, cloud-based software and data infrastructure used across the company. This includes everything from our central data warehouse, to the distributed systems used to run our software, to the data streams used to track and monitor our operations. As the first platform infrastructure engineer at Form, your early projects may include creating deployment patterns for microservices, down-selecting a streaming platform, or spinning up a K8s cluster for our workflow orchestration tool using infrastructure-as-code (IaC). This is a unique opportunity to leverage and expand your software engineering experience to make a direct impact on climate change as part of a fast-growing team!

Form Energy, where possible, embraces a digital work environment and supports onsite, hybrid, and remote types of work with office locations in Somerville, MA (Greater Boston), Berkeley, CA (San Francisco Bay Area), and Eighty Four, PA (Greater Pittsburgh). #LI-DNI



Besides joining a community of people working to make the world better, Form Energy commits to you equitable compensation, stock options, and offers a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need to thrive.

We cover 100% of employee premiums and 80% of dependent premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance for full time employees. We offer a flexible Paid Time Off program and every employee, regardless of gender identity or expression, is eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental bonding leave. A full listing of our benefits is available on our careers page

At Form Energy, we are working toward a 100% renewable energy future for everyone in the world. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our revolutionary products. Form Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

What You'll Do:

  • Lead the design, deployment and maintenance of software infrastructure used across Form to accelerate hardware product development, business development analytics, operations analytics, and more
  • Collaborate with other teams across the company to define infrastructure requirements for products including web applications, data pipelines, machine learning models, physics simulation models, and grid planning models
  • Architect secure, reliable, and resilient solutions to meet the above requirements
  • Establish standards for performance, up-time, and security of software infrastructure and ensure these are met with the help of the Platform team and other Software teams
  • Implement IaC for existing infrastructure when possible and lead and advise on IaC deployment for new infrastructure
  • What You'll Bring:

  • Minimum 7+ years of professional experience designing, building, and/or maintaining software and data infrastructure, preferably with extensive experience using AWS
  • Strong command of python and familiarity with web frameworks like Django, Flask, or Falcon
  • 2+ years of experience working with container orchestration tools, ideally AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or Elastic Container Service (ECS)
  • Strong proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Pulumi or Terraform
  • Evangelism for cloud security best practices
  • Experience with stream processing platforms like Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis
  • Curiosity, creativity, and tenacity when it comes to problem solving
  • Experience working at both growth-phase startups and mid-to-large enterprises
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