Staff SecOps Engineer
Lunar Energy
Company Overview
Lunar Energy
Mountain View, CA, United States
2020
Approximately 250 employees (source: lunarenergy.com).
What They Do
Lunar Energy is a pioneering renewable energy startup focused on electrifying homes through innovative clean energy products and virtual power plants. The company, founded by Kunal Girotra, a former Tesla Energy executive, aims to provide scalable solutions that allow homeowners to generate, store, and manage electricity efficiently. Their flagship product is a next-generation home battery system, which is part of a modular hardware ecosystem designed to facilitate the transition to 100% clean energy by replacing fossil fuel appliances with solar-compatible technologies such as heat pumps and induction cooking (source: cbinsights.com). Additionally, Lunar Energy integrates its hardware with Gridshare software, acquired from Moixa, to enable smart energy controls and aggregation into virtual power plants (VPPs) that connect thousands of home batteries for grid balancing (source: cleantechnica.com).
Projects & Track Record
While specific completed projects are limited as Lunar Energy focuses on product development, the company has made significant strides in integrating proven technologies from its acquisition of Moixa, which has managed extensive home battery fleets for smart charging and VPPs (source: investors.sunrun.com). The first home battery system was slated for market launch in late 2022, and ongoing efforts are centered on scaling manufacturing and partnerships with Sunrun for nationwide residential rollouts. Lunar Energy's geographical operations include its headquarters in Mountain View, California, and a software hub in London, UK, targeting U.S. residential customers first while eyeing global VPP expansion (source: cbinsights.com). Key clients include Sunrun, which serves as a lead investor and distribution partner, further solidifying Lunar's position in the renewable energy market.
Recent Developments
In the past two years, Lunar Energy has not disclosed any new funding rounds or major contracts following its emergence from stealth in 2022. The company continues to focus on product scaling and commercialization of its VPP solutions, with the 2022 $300 million funding raise and the acquisition of Moixa marking significant milestones in its early development (source: equityzen.com). Although press mentions in 2025 have referenced unrelated entities, Lunar Energy remains committed to its mission of home electrification and expanding its market presence through strategic partnerships and technological advancements (source: investors.sunrun.com).
Working There
Lunar Energy offers a dynamic work environment primarily focused on engineering roles, with approximately 250 employees engaged in hardware, firmware, software, product development, and R&D. The company actively recruits talent for its Mountain View headquarters and London office, emphasizing a mission-driven culture that attracts savvy entrepreneurs and passionate experts (source: lunarenergy.com). While specific benefits are not publicly documented, the company invites applications for various roles, highlighting its commitment to building a high-impact team dedicated to addressing climate challenges through home electrification (source: lunarenergy.com).
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Job Description
Lunar Energy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy-making our electricity greener, our air cleaner and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We're a fast-growing, global company building the world's best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.
We are currently seeking a Staff SecOps Engineer to join our talented team of engineers, dedicated to delivering a more sustainable future. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring end-to-end platform security. You will have the opportunity to strongly influence and contribute to the team's future.
Lunar Energy empowers you to explore multiple facets of our technology stack, aligned with your personal interests and abilities. We have a strong tradition of leveraging functional programming and type systems to craft pragmatic and flexible systems that align with business requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Incident response and detection
- Architect and evolve the SecOps platform
- Run hypothesis-driven hunts and operationalize threat intelligence
- Reason about cloud infrastructure strategy to help ensure that solutions are the best fit for requirements
- Develop and evangelise security best practices amongst the wider Software Engineering team, automating secure software development processes where possible.
Key Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- A minimum of 8 years' of combined experience in DevOps, SecOps, Platform Engineering or SRE roles, with at least 4 years of specific focus on SecOps.
- Offensive background: red team, pentest, or purple team experience
- Experience using infrastructure as code
- Strong understanding of networking and network security
- Strong background in Linux operating systems
- Strong expertise in Cloud security in AWS
- Proficiency in one or more scripting programming languages (Python, Ruby, Bash, etc.)
Desirable Skills
- Fluency in compliance frameworks such as SOC2 or ISO27001
- Systems programming in Go or Rust
- Experience with serverless technologies
- Experience with Typescript
- Interest in the IoT and renewable energy industry
You Are
- Impact-Driven: Thrive in a small, agile team where your initiative and contributions make a significant impact.
- Curious and Enthusiastic: Eager to embrace new challenges and continuously expand your skill set.
- A Self-Starter: Capable of managing your own workload and deadlines while taking personal responsibility for your tasks.
Benefits
We're dedicated to creating a remarkable employee experience. At Lunar, competitive base pay is one part of our total compensation package. Lunar employees also have the opportunity to become Lunar shareholders by getting equity in a fast-growing company and participating in our employee stock program.
Additional benefits include:
- Competitive salary and stock options package
- Private Medical Insurance scheme through BUPA (medical history disregarded)
- A wellbeing and lifestyle benefits plan through Medicash
- 5% employer contributions pension matching
- A budget for work related training of ??1,000 per financial year and an allowance of 4 training days
- Cycle To Work scheme and Workplace Nursery benefit
- Access to Spill - Mental Health Support platform
- Enhanced Maternity + Paternity Pay
- 25 days annual holiday entitlement + 8 Bank Holidays
- Flexible start and finish times, fully remote working or hybrid depending on preferences
Duration: Full-Time
Location: Fully remote within the UK, but you are welcome any time at our office in Spitalfields, London (UK), as often as you like.
Our DE&I Philosophy
Lunar Energy is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining diverse talent by supporting an inclusive workplace. Lunar recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by applicable law.
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About the role
June 4, 2026
Full time
Company
- London, United Kingdom
8+ years in DevOps, SecOps, Platform Engineering or SRE roles
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