Senior Platform Backend Engineer

About the Company

Plus Power is an energy storage market leader, with a market-leading 10+ GW portfolio across more than 25 states that will transform North American electric grids into cleaner and more versatile critical infrastructure. We are focused on solving hard climate problems, profitably.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services, internal platforms, and shared infrastructure
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable production code primarily in Python
• Architect and operate AWS-based, cloud-native systems with an emphasis on reliability and security
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Enable and support data platforms, analytics systems, and ML-adjacent workloads
• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure code
• Establish and maintain observability standards using metrics, logs, and alerts
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead root cause analysis

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, backend engineering, data engineering, CloudOps, or SRE roles
• Strong backend development experience building production services
• Significant hands-on experience with AWS (VPC, IAM, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation)
• Experience operating containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and automated testing
• Experience working with relational databases and data-intensive systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience on data platform, analytics, or ML infrastructure teams
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, or streaming data patterns
• Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services