Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer - Data Platform

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erve platform capabilities: templates, SDKs, internal tooling, or developer-experience improvements that reduced the load on the platform team.

• Experience with data governance at the platform level: catalogs, lineage, data quality frameworks, and fine-grained access control.
• Full-stack development experience, including delivering features across backend services and frontend applications.
• Geospatial systems, spatial databases, or location-based applications.
• Experience building agentic AI assistants in production: setup and tool design, guardrails, natural-language querying and response quality, evaluation, and integration with security and access-control tooling.
• Production data science workflows or infrastructure as code.
• Experience in energy, climate tech, or other infrastructure domains.

YOUR APPROACH

• Think in platforms: you build things once so others don't have to build them many times.
• Bring a startup builder's bias for shipping: you scope tightly, deliver something real, and iterate.
• Take initiative and turn open-ended problems into working software.
• Balance ambitious ideas with practical engineering judgment.
• Learn from domain experts and help others succeed.
• Explore new ways to build with AI while taking responsibility for results.

LOCATION

• Redwood City, CA

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary, performance bonus, and equity.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Hybrid schedule: 3 days in office for collaboration, 2 days remote for focused work.
• Access to leading academic, industry, and government partners in the AI-energy ecosystem.

SALARY RANGE

$184,000 – $284,000 Total (Base & bonus)

This range covers Senior and Staff levels; final level, scope, and compensation will be calibrated to your experience and demonstrated impact.

Join us in tackling one of the most important infrastructure challenges of our time — enabling the energy foundation for the age of AI.