Platform Engineer
Base Power Company5 months ago
Responsibilities
- Define and own the foundations used by Base’s engineering teams.
- Design, build, and maintain shared production platforms and infrastructure.
- Define service interfaces, deployment patterns, and operational standards for hardware-connected systems.
- Consolidate fragmented implementations through code and architectural changes.
- Introduce infrastructure and system patterns for distributed services, production workloads, and hardware-integrated systems.
- Build local and remote developer tooling and sensible engineering defaults.
- Own and continuously improve CI/CD systems.
- Document platform architecture, design decisions, and recommended engineering practices.
Requirements
- Experience working on complex or failure-prone systems and improving their architecture.
- Strong backend or infrastructure engineering experience in cloud-based environments.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience defining and operating infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Go or Python.
- Understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and containerized workloads.
- Experience designing and evolving CI/CD systems and software delivery workflows.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills with backend, device, and hardware-adjacent teams.
- Comfort owning broad and evolving infrastructure responsibilities in a fast-moving startup environment.
Benefits
- In-person work arrangement
- Startup environment with broad and evolving responsibilities
About Base Power Company
Base Power Company builds and operates distributed home battery systems that provide outage protection and lower electric costs for households, while strengthening local grid reliability. The company sells and finances these systems directly and through partnerships with homebuilders in a B2B2C model. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Base is privately held and focuses on clean energy, energy storage, and grid services in the U.S. market.