Senior Platform Engineer
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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Job Description
As Gridware grows, the number of services, environments, and engineers grows with it. We need a senior engineer who treats developer experience as a product - designing paved paths, golden templates, and self-service tooling on top of our AWS / Kubernetes / Argo CD foundation so that teams can focus on the grid, not on YAML.
You will sit alongside our DevOps and Cloud Security engineers. While they own the underlying cloud infrastructure and security posture, you will own the layer above: the workflows, abstractions, and tooling that engineers interact with every day. As a founding member of the platform function, you'll shape the technical vision, drive cross-team adoption, and measure success by how invisible (and reliable) the platform feels to the rest of engineering.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, build, and rollout of an internal developer platform on top of AWS, EKS, Argo CD, and GitHub Actions that lets engineers create, deploy, and operate services with minimal friction.
- Own and evolve our service templates, Helm chart conventions, and Argo CD App-of-Apps patterns so that adding or migrating a service is a guided, low-risk experience.
- Build and maintain reusable GitHub Actions workflows (build / push / scan, frontend build / deploy, SonarQube scans, semantic release) and improve CI feedback loops, build times, and caching.
- Define and enforce platform standards for observability - structured logs into Loki, metrics into Prometheus / Mimir, dashboards in Grafana, and SLOs / alerts wired in by default.
- Build self-service tooling around environments, secrets, feature flags, and access - so that the right thing is easy and the wrong thing is hard to do by accident.
- Own the developer-facing aspects of identity and access (Auth0, IdP integrations, Tailscale access, IRSA / service accounts) and keep onboarding and offboarding smooth.
- Partner with DevOps on infrastructure changes, with Cloud Security on guardrails, and with backend / frontend / data / firmware teams to understand their pain points and prioritize platform investments.
- Mentor engineers across the org on platform conventions, lead design reviews for new services, and push back on patterns that don't scale.
- Treat the platform as a product: gather feedback, define roadmaps, write docs, and measure adoption and reliability.
Required Skills
- 5+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles, including significant experience building and shipping developer-facing tooling for other engineering teams.
- Track record of owning and delivering platform initiatives end-to-end, from design through adoption, with limited day-to-day supervision.
- Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS or similar) and GitOps workflows with Argo CD or Flux.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform; comfort with Terragrunt or a similar wrapper.
- Solid experience with CI/CD systems, ideally GitHub Actions, including reusable / composable workflows and release automation.
- Working knowledge of AWS core services (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, ECR) and how to compose them into reliable, secure platforms.
- Experience designing developer abstractions - Helm charts, service templates, internal CLIs, scaffolding tools, or Backstage-style portals - that other engineering teams easily interact with.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Bash, or TypeScript for building tooling and automation.
- Experience integrating observability (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus / Mimir, OpenTelemetry, or similar) as a default rather than an afterthought.
- Strong written communication skills, with a habit of writing docs, runbooks, and wikis that engineers can actually use.
Bonus Skills
- Experience building or operating Apollo Router / GraphQL federation gateways and supporting subgraph development workflows.
- Experience with Backstage or a comparable internal developer portal.
- Experience integrating Argo Workflows or similar Kubernetes-native job / pipeline runners into a developer platform.
- Familiarity with Databricks or ML Ops pipelines and the developer experience around data / model deployment.
- Experience with Tailscale, Auth0, EntraID, or other identity / zero-trust networking tooling.
- Familiarity with cloud architectures supporting IoT / embedded systems and distributed, low-power devices.
- Experience in high-growth startup environments where you must wear many hats.
$190,000 - $210,000 a year
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
May 14, 2026
Full time
Company
- San Francisco, California, United States
5+ years
UTC-07:00
