Senior Software Engineer, Energy Platform
Redwood MaterialsSan Francisco, California
Full Time
Posted March 18, 2026
$180k - $238k
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Job Description
A Senior Software Engineer responsible for developing and maintaining the software platform that optimizes control and market participation of battery energy storage systems, including data engineering, simulation, real-time workflows, and energy market integration.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain telemetry pipelines, data stores, and feature ingestion systems for forecasting and optimization
- Design, develop, and manage simulation and training infrastructure for large-scale simulations
- Develop and operate real-time forecast and optimization workflows to support BESS operations
- Support energy market integration through data ingestion and bid management
- Collaborate across teams to ensure the overall system functions effectively
- Write well-tested, monitored software and iteratively improve system quality
Requirements
- 2-5 years of experience in software engineering
- Strong software design instincts, including thinking in systems, reasoning from first principles, and understanding the challenges of building available, reliable, scalable, and secure distributed systems
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining telemetry pipelines, data stores, feature ingestion, and storage systems for forecasting and optimization
- Experience developing and operating real-time forecast and optimization workflows, including orchestrating pipelines that drive battery energy storage system (BESS) operations
- Experience supporting energy market integration, including data ingestion and bid management
- Ability to collaborate across the full stack and across team boundaries to ensure the product system works well as a whole
- Ability to write well-tested, well-monitored software and iteratively improve it over time
- Experience applying AI tools to accelerate development while maintaining high system design quality and code standards
- Excellent communication skills, including clear communication and active listening
- Bias toward action, taking initiative, making progress in ambiguous situations, and not waiting for perfect information
- Willingness to think and collaborate across team boundaries to ensure the product functions effectively as a whole
- Rigorous about quality, including writing well-tested, well-monitored software and iterating on it over time
- Experience with relevant technologies such as Kubernetes, Rust, Python, NATS, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, or SQLite (preferred but not explicitly mandatory)
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: $180,000 - $237,500 USD
Full-time position
Compensation will be commensurate with experience
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