Staff/ Senior Staff Software Engineer, Equilibrium Energy
Data Engineering
Plus equity grant
Clean power company
Open for applications
Clean power company
21-100 employees
Open for applications
Plus equity grant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the collective path to climate, energy, and societal equilibriums.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 7+ years of progressive experience in data or software engineering
- Advanced programming skills in Python and SQL
- Experience building globally distributed data systems and real-time pipelines
- Hands-on with orchestration/stream processing tools like Temporal, Dagster, Airflow, Spark, or Kafka
- Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra)
- Familiarity with data warehousing and cloud computing (Databricks and AWS preferred)
- Experience mentoring engineers and providing architectural direction
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work with unstructured or ambiguous datasets
- Commitment to data quality, testing, and observability
- Experience with both OLTP and OLAP data processing systems
Desirable
- Experience with energy market data or weather data sources (e.g., NWS, NOAA, Yes Energy)
- Experience using dbt for transformations and data quality checks
- Collaborating with data science teams to build and productionize ML pipelines
- Familiarity with DataOps practices and CI/CD for data workflows
- Knowledge of real-time data technologies, graph databases, or unstructured data processing
- Understanding of power systems, grid operations, or financial aspects of energy trading
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping our long-term data architecture. You’ll lead the design and implementation of high-impact data initiatives that support energy trading, forecasting, and AI development
- This is a hands-on role that blends platform engineering, advanced data processing, and cross-functional collaboration. You’ll help scale our systems to enable near real-time decision-making and empower traders, data scientists, and operators to move faster with confidence
- Design and implement the long-term data architecture using modern technologies and frameworks
- Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in Python, SQL, and dbt—ingesting data via APIs, web scraping, and streaming sources
- Develop and operate data pipelines using orchestration frameworks such as Temporal and Dagster
- Design data models and schemas for our cloud warehouse (Databricks) and relational databases; contribute to the development of our ML feature store
- Optimize workflows for performance and cost efficiency
- Drive large, cross-functional data initiatives from planning to execution
- Partner with AI and engineering teams to ensure high-quality datasets for machine learning and analytics
- Collaborate with product managers, scientists, and engineers to gather requirements and deliver robust data products
- Mentor other engineers in best practices for data ingestion, architecture, and scalable pipeline design
- Support the software testing cycle, debug code, and resolve issues found during QA or user acceptance testing
Our take
Amidst the rapid growth of renewable energy across the world's electrical grids, there is an urgent demand for effective energy storage solutions. Equilibrium Energy is stepping onto the stage to tackle this challenge. Merging energy expertise with cutting-edge technology, the company aims to navigate the intricacies of an increasingly volatile power grid.
Centered on grid-scale battery deployments, Equilibrium offers a contractual solution for grid-scale battery developers in partnership with Hatch Renewable. This approach addresses a pivotal financing gap and recently manifested in a monumental 100MW battery tolling agreement in Texas with Jupiter Power.
Backed by an impressive 2023 infusion of capital, Equilibrium is poised to reshape renewable energy deployment. With a strategic focus on supporting battery developers, Equilibrium's trajectory holds the promise of propelling the clean energy revolution forward.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2025
$28m
LATE VC
Oct 2024
$39m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401k package
- Opportunity to own a significant piece of the company via a meaningful equity grant
- Unlimited vacation and flexible work schedule
- Ability to work remotely from anywhere in the US & Europe, or join one of our regional hubs in Boston, SF Bay Area, or London
- Accelerated professional growth and development opportunities through direct collaboration and mentorship from leading industry expert colleagues across energy and tech
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ryan Hanley
(CEO)Graduated from the University of California with an Master's in Business Administration. Previously served as a Grid Services Director at Tesla and as the CPO at AMS. Also worked as an Energy Platform General Manager at Shell.
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