20 days ago
Redwood City, CA, USASenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Build a reliable, real-time, scalable, and secure cloud-native backend platform.
- Develop time-series data storage and retrieval, real-time streaming, and event processing capabilities.
- Integrate the platform with simulation, forecasting, optimization, and market modules.
- Design continuous deployment and safe updates for live, mission-critical infrastructure.
- Lead automated testing, CI/CD pipeline development, performance tuning, observability, and engineering excellence.
- Own architecture decisions related to scalability, fault tolerance, cybersecurity, and on-premises control center deployments.
- Collaborate with data scientists, power systems engineers, and DevOps teams to bring AI-driven solutions into production.
- Own services end to end from design through deployment and ongoing operation.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience architecting, implementing, and operating highly available, reliable, secure, and scalable cloud-native real-time backend systems.
- Strong software architecture, distributed systems, concurrency, and security fundamentals.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language, such as Python.
- Strong experience designing REST/gRPC APIs and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with time-series data, real-time streaming, and relational and non-relational databases, such as Kafka, MQTT, or TimescaleDB.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and production operations.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, CodeRabbit, Claude, or GitHub Copilot.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to prioritize and work cross-functionally in a startup environment.
- Passion for making a difference and an entrepreneurial, self-starting approach focused on scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
- Preferred background in energy, climate tech, power systems, complex infrastructure, or grid operations.
- Preferred experience with industrial telemetry systems such as SCADA or Ignition.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, performance bonus, and equity.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Lunch provided three days per week in the office.
- Hybrid schedule with three days in the Redwood City office and two days remote.
- Access to academic, industry, and government partners in the AI-energy ecosystem.
- Hybrid, in-office role based in Redwood City, California; candidates must be local or willing to relocate.
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About GridCARE
GridCARE is the pioneer of Power Acceleration, a new approach to delivering power for AI infrastructure. The company’s Energize™ platform uses advanced AI models, grid simulations, and real-time system intelligence to identify and activate latent capacity across existing power infrastructure. By coordinating utilities, AI infrastructure developers, and flexible energy resources, GridCARE enables large AI factories to secure and activate power in months instead of years. GridCARE is helping power the next generation of AI infrastructure while preserving grid reliability and accelerating economic growth.