Senior Software Engineer, API
Gridware
Company Overview
What They Do
Gridware is a pioneering startup focused on enhancing grid resilience through innovative technology. Their core offering, Active Grid Response (AGR), utilizes pole-mounted Gridscope sensors that monitor various conditions on distribution power lines in real-time. These sensors are powered by solar energy and communicate through device-to-device, cellular, and satellite networks, ensuring continuous operation regardless of grid voltage (source: gridware.io). The technology is designed to detect a range of issues, including vegetation contact, downed lines, and equipment failures, enabling utilities to perform predictive maintenance and dynamic de-energization to prevent wildfires and outages (source: cbsnews.com). Target markets include U.S. electric utilities, particularly in wildfire-prone areas like California and the Midwest, with plans for international expansion in the future (source: promptloop.com). Their products integrate seamlessly with utility operations management systems, covering over 90 million field hours and serving 40% of U.S. customers through partnerships (source: gridware.io).
Projects & Track Record
Gridware has successfully deployed approximately 13,000 sensors across eight states, particularly in California's high-risk wildfire areas, covering around 1,000 miles of power lines. Their technology has been credited with preventing wildfires, as evidenced by reports of alerts that stopped smoldering vegetation from igniting (source: cbsnews.com). Notable integrations include partnerships with PG&E for high impedance fault detection and a pilot project with Puget Sound Energy aimed at improving storm and wildfire repair prioritization. In one instance, a Northern California circuit experienced a 70% reduction in outage patrol times, while a Midwest utility saved 400,000 outage minutes across four circuits (source: gridware.io). Ongoing projects include a 2024 pilot with NorthWestern Energy in Montana City, focusing on real-time asset monitoring to mitigate wildfire risks (source: northwesternenergy.com).
Recent Developments
In the past two years, Gridware has raised significant funding to support its growth and expansion efforts. In 2024, they announced a $26.4 million Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital, following a $10.5 million seed extension in 2023 co-led by Lowercarbon Capital and Fifty Years (source: gridware.io). This funding is aimed at enhancing their U.S. operations and preparing for international deployments. Additionally, Gridware has received recognition for its innovative technology, including being named one of Time magazine's Best Inventions in 2022 for their Gridscope sensors and having founders featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2023 (source: engineering.berkeley.edu). The company continues to deepen its partnerships with utilities, including a pilot program with NorthWestern Energy set for late 2024 (source: northwesternenergy.com).
Working There
Gridware offers a variety of engineering-focused roles, including positions in software engineering, electrical design engineering, data engineering, and technical recruiting. The company is built by linemen and engineers, reflecting a culture that emphasizes collaboration with field workers and a mission-driven approach to wildfire prevention (source: climatepeople.com). Hiring is concentrated at their Bay Area headquarters, where they are rapidly expanding their team to support sensor production and deployment efforts. The culture at Gridware is described as rigorous and mission-oriented, with a strong focus on achieving real-world results, such as the significant field hours logged by their technology (source: gridware.io). While specific employee benefits are not detailed in the sources, the venture-backed nature of the company suggests competitive startup perks may be available (source: cbsnews.com).
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We're seeking a Senior Software Engineers to design and build the APIs that deliver data and real time events to Gridware's customers. You'll create critical interfaces that allow utilities to access our insights and take action on hazards to the electric grid.
You'll work hands-on with both customer engineering teams and Gridware's internal teams to scope, deploy, and operationalize API integrations. This includes our core Gridware API, upcoming partnerships, and new data products under development. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role essential to making our platform's capabilities accessible and actionable for the people who need them the most, and protecting critical infrastructure at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design and build robust APIs that expose real time events, health metrics and analytics to our customers.
- Collaborate directly with utility customers and integration partners to understand their data needs and workflows.
- Implement rate limiting, data access controls, and authentication systems.
- Create comprehensive documentation that helps customers integrate quickly and successfully.
- Champion engineering best practices around testing, API performance, observability, and continuous deployment to ensure reliability at scale.
- Mentor and support the development of other engineers.
Required Skills
- 5+ years of software development experience, with a strong focus on building APIs and distributed systems.
- A strong understanding of API design principles, event driven frameworks and best practices for API security, versioning, and documentation.
- Proficiency in Python and PostgreSQL (or equivalent modern stack).
- Excellent communicator and relationship builder; comfortable explaining technical details to both engineers and utility stakeholders.
- Comfortable taking broad ownership in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment.
- Passion for building products that combine software, sensors, and the physical world.
Bonus Skills
- Familiarity with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, or Mimir.
- Background working in hardware-software ecosystems or IoT systems.
- Strong product sense and ability to translate complex technical concepts into usable tools.
$180,000 - $200,000 a year
At this time, Gridware is unable to provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this role. We're only able to consider candidates who are currently authorized to work in the country of employment without visa sponsorship now or in the future.
This describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply!
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)
- Paid parental leave
- Alternating day off (every other Monday)
- "Off the Grid", a two week per year paid break for all employees.
- Commuter allowance
- Company-paid training
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About the role
April 9, 2026
Full time
Company
- San Francisco, California, United States
5+ years of software development experience
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