Platform Engineer
Our mission at Base is to fix the power grid and enable affordable and reliable electricity for all. To do that, we are building America’s Next-Generation Power Company; the first engineering-led, technology-focused, R&D-driven electricity company. We are a team of tenacious engineers, operators, and creatives who have solved hard problems and are here to do it again.
Cloud services at Base are core to our mission and success. Our services command a distributed fleet of energy systems, manage electricity service for homes across Texas, and accelerate our deployment operations through automation and modern tooling. As a software engineer on this team, you’ll be responsible for designing and building robust software systems to manage, monitor, and control the heart of Base.
Responsibilities:
- Build Scalable Systems: Design and implement backend services and APIs.
- Cloud Mastery: Develop and optimize cloud applications in Golang and Python.
- Automate with Precision: Employ Terraform to manage infrastructure as code, and Temporal to orchestrate complex workflows for deployment and operations.
- Collaborate with the Best: Work closely with our data scientists, IoT experts, and product designers to create seamless solutions that connect hardware, data, and the cloud.
- Solve for Impact: Every line of code contributes to revolutionizing the grid that powers our society.
Required Skills / Qualifications:
- Minimum 2 years of experience in professional software development. More experience is valued as we're hiring across all levels.
- Proficiency in a backend language (Go, Python, Java, or similar).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- A passion for writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Bonus: Experience with IoT, distributed systems, or DevOps practices.
- An eagerness to learn, grow, and contribute to an ambitious team.
If you’re passionate about tackling one of the most critical challenges of our time, now is the time to join us. Together, we can usher in a new era of American energy abundance by developing the hardware, software, and deployment operations that make it possible.