Senior Software Engineer, Active Grid Response

About Gridware

Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware’s advanced Active Grid Response platform uses high-precision sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io .

Role Description

In this role, you will lead development of systems that detect and report faults on the power grid. The technology you create will integrate the capabilities of our machine learning systems and human analysts to catch faults on the power grid in real-time. Your decisions will directly impact the ability of our fault detection systems to operate reliably and effectively at scale.

Your background might look something like

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in product-driven companies

• Ability to thrive in a low structure, high-autonomy environment with competing priorities

• You’ve built something from the ground up with broad ownership

• Experience with Python, React, Typescript, PostgreSQL

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing real-time, event-driven systems or human-in-the-loop platforms

• Experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Mimir

• Experience working in hardware/software contexts

• 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