Senior Software Engineer: Circuit and Fault Intelligence
Gridware
Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Apr 19, 2025
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 to scale our automated fault detection systems. Gridware is working with never-before-seen data and operational workflows, and this demands innovative, rigorous engineering for user experience and time constraints. This is a critical role where your decisions will directly impact the speed and accuracy with which our utility customers can respond to grid faults, outages, and wildfire ignitions.
Your background might look like:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in relevant roles at tech and 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, GraphQL, React, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Linux systems, and containerization technologies
- Experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus
- Experience building real-time, human-in-the-loop, or operationally complex tooling
- Experience working with ELT/ML pipelines and event driven architectures
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