Are you ready to build America’s energy future? Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. We’re revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable, even during extended periods of stress. By strengthening the electric system and reimagining what’s possible, we’re giving clean energy a whole new form! In recent years, Form Energy has earned a number of accolades, including being named by TIME as a “Best Invention”, MIT Technology Review as a “Top Climate Tech Company To Watch”, and Fast Company as “One of the Next Big Things In Tech”. We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and our team is growing just as rapidly to meet demand. We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States and production of our iron-air batteries is underway at our first high-volume manufacturing facility in West Virginia. Working for Form Energy is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And now - right as we significantly scale up battery manufacturing -  might be the most exciting moment in the company’s history to join. We are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better.Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place.<h2>Role Description</h2>Form Energy is hiring a Staff Software Platform Engineer to be part of our growing Software Engineering organization. This organization is responsible for everything up and down our technology software stack, and is at the heart of making sure Form’s battery achieves the best performance possible. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape, and be part of a fast moving company, working on breakthrough technology, and an incredible mission. The Platform team is responsible for deploying and maintaining common, cloud-based software and data infrastructure used across the company. This includes everything from our Snowflake data warehouse, to the K8s (EKS) clusters used to run our software, to the streaming platform that processes telemetry data from our product in the field. This role is intended to be a technical lead for cloud infrastructure development and management, and will work closely with a distributed team of data and platform engineers. A key focus of this role is to improve the reliability, security, and cost effectiveness of our software and data infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to bring your cloud engineering expertise to help advance the development of our transformational multi-day energy storage systems.<h3>What you'll do:</h3><ul style=""><li>Cloud architecture including leading the design, deployment, and maintenance of software and data infrastructure used across Form to advance product design, engineering, manufacturing, and operations</li><li>Manage existing AWS infrastructure and lead its transition to the Well-Architected Framework</li><li>Establish standards for security, performance, and up-time of software infrastructure, and ensure these are met with the help of the Platform team and other Software teams</li><li>Standardize observability, monitoring, and alerting tools used across the organization</li><li>Implement IaC for existing infrastructure when possible, and lead and advise on IaC deployment for new infrastructure</li><li>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</li></ul><h3>What you'll bring:</h3><ul style=""><li>7+ years of professional experience designing, building, and/or maintaining software and data infrastructure, preferably with extensive experience using AWS</li><li>Strong command of python or go, and wizardry on the command line</li><li>Evangelism for cloud security best practices and experience meeting standards like ISO 27001, UL 2900 or the NIST Cybersecurity Framework</li><li>Experience working with container orchestration tools, ideally AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or Elastic Container Service (ECS); experience with Helm and ArgoCD desirable</li><li>Networking fundamentals as they relate to K8s, site-to-site VPNs, and security</li><li>Strong proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools like Pulumi, Terraform, and Ansible</li><li>Curiosity, creativity, and tenacity when it comes to problem solving</li><li>Experience working at both growth-phase startups and mid-to-large enterprises</li></ul>#LI-Onsite#LI-TR1Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here. When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed. To build America’s energy future, we need everyone at the table. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs. If you may require reasonable accommodations to participate in our interview process, please contact accommodations@formenergy.com. Requests for accommodations will be treated with discretion. Form Energy is committed to maintaining the privacy of our applicants. Please be aware that we will never solicit sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers or bank account details during the recruiting or hiring process.

We are developing a new class of cost-effective, multi-day energy storage systems that will enable a reliable and fully-renewable electric grid year-round.

Staff Software Platform Engineer

Are you ready to build America’s energy future? Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. We’re revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable, even during extended periods of stress. By strengthening the electric system and reimagining what’s possible, we’re giving clean energy a whole new form!&nbsp;In recent years, Form Energy has earned a number of accolades, including being named by TIME as a “Best Invention”, MIT Technology Review as a “Top Climate Tech Company To Watch”, and Fast Company as “One of the Next Big Things In Tech”. We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and our team is growing just as rapidly to meet demand. We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States and production of our iron-air batteries is underway at our first high-volume manufacturing facility in West Virginia. Working for Form Energy is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And now - right as we significantly scale up battery manufacturing -&nbsp; might be the most exciting moment in the company’s history to join. We are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better.Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place.<h2>Role Description</h2>Form Energy is hiring a Staff Software Platform Engineer to be part of our growing Software Engineering organization. This organization is responsible for everything up and down our technology software stack, and is at the heart of making sure Form’s battery achieves the best performance possible. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape, and be part of a fast moving company, working on breakthrough technology, and an incredible mission. The Platform team is responsible for deploying and maintaining common, cloud-based software and data infrastructure used across the company. This includes everything from our Snowflake data warehouse, to the K8s (EKS) clusters used to run our software, to the streaming platform that processes telemetry data from our product in the field. This role is intended to be a technical lead for cloud infrastructure development and management, and will work closely with a distributed team of data and platform engineers. A key focus of this role is to improve the reliability, security, and cost effectiveness of our software and data infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to bring your cloud engineering expertise to help advance the development of our transformational multi-day energy storage systems.<h3>What you'll do:</h3><ul><li>Cloud architecture including leading the design, deployment, and maintenance of software and data infrastructure used across Form to advance product design, engineering, manufacturing, and operations</li><li>Manage existing AWS infrastructure and lead its transition to the Well-Architected Framework</li><li>Establish standards for security, performance, and up-time of software infrastructure, and ensure these are met with the help of the Platform team and other Software teams</li><li>Standardize observability, monitoring, and alerting tools used across the organization</li><li>Implement IaC for existing infrastructure when possible, and lead and advise on IaC deployment for new infrastructure</li><li>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</li></ul><h3>What you'll bring:</h3><ul><li>7+ years of professional experience designing, building, and/or maintaining software and data infrastructure, preferably with extensive experience using AWS</li><li>Strong command of python or go, and wizardry on the command line</li><li>Evangelism for cloud security best practices and experience meeting standards like ISO 27001, UL 2900 or the NIST Cybersecurity Framework</li><li>Experience working with container orchestration tools, ideally AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or Elastic Container Service (ECS); experience with Helm and ArgoCD desirable</li><li>Networking fundamentals as they relate to K8s, site-to-site VPNs, and security</li><li>Strong proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools like Pulumi, Terraform, and Ansible</li><li>Curiosity, creativity, and tenacity when it comes to problem solving</li><li>Experience working at both growth-phase startups and mid-to-large enterprises</li></ul>#LI-Onsite#LI-TR1Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here.&nbsp;When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed.&nbsp;To build America’s energy future, we need everyone at the table. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs. If you may require reasonable accommodations to participate in our interview process, please contact accommodations@formenergy.com. Requests for accommodations will be treated with discretion. Form Energy is committed to maintaining the privacy of our applicants. Please be aware that we will never solicit sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers or bank account details during the recruiting or hiring process.

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