Staff Software Engineer - 26218
About this role
Backend Platform Engineer (Staff / Principal Level)
Why YOU want this position
As part of the Power & Energy Transition business unit, you’ll work on systems that support congestion analysis, forecasting, and grid optimization for renewable energy markets. Our platform combines distributed systems, machine learning, complex power flow analysis and optimization models with high-throughput data processing to deliver critical insights in real time.
We’re looking for engineers who enjoy solving difficult infrastructure and platform problems while collaborating closely with product, data science, and domain experts.
The Team:
As part of the Marginal Unit Team, you will be a key contributor to the fastest growing product line at Enverus. We pair complex algorithms and machine learning with powerful computational infrastructure and an intuitive UI that is unmatched in the industry. Small, fast paced, and highly collaborative, this team values engineers who enjoy tackling difficult technical and domain problems while continuously learning from one another.
Engineers on this team own systems end-to-end, including architecture, implementation, observability, reliability, and operational support.
What You’ll Do:
Integrate AI-powered infrastructure and capabilities into our products
Design and maintain high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines
Build and support complex computing algorithms and infrastructures
Take ownership of existing systems and services, redesigning them as necessary to reduce complexity or leverage new technologie
Lead architectural initiatives and influence engineering standards across team
Challenges You’ll Face:
Highly complex domain (the power grid itself, and the markets that sit on top of it)
Continuously evolving solution stack on the frontier of AI development
Stability and observability of a distributed system involving dozens of semi-independent services
Maintaining performance while working with complex computations on large-scale real-time data
What you’ll have:
BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
Significant experience working with data rich applications and pipelines
Experience learning and working in a highly complex domain (financial trading or power systems is a plus)
Proven success in delivering highly reliable and scalable software systems
Experience working within and optimizing systems that perform expensive computations
Experience building backend applications using Python, Go or Rust
Experience using Kafka, SQL and no-SQL databases
Familiarity with Kubernetes on GCP or AWS
Our Technology Stack:
Python, Go, Rust
Kafka, MySQL, ClickHouse
Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Argo
Grafana, Sentry, Honeycomb
Terraform, Pulumi
Claude, AWS Bedrock, Langchain, AgentCore
What We Offer
Fast paced environment with a strong team and interesting products
Competitive Compensation Package
Medical, Dental, and Vision Plan
Retirement Savings Plan 401(k)
Note
Scope and expectations will be calibrated based on experience level. Principal-level candidates are expected to drive technical strategy across multiple teams and influence architecture at organizational scale.
Company at a glance
Enverus is a single source platform for management, development and acquisition, within the entire energy value chain. From early-stage investment to full-scale development, we provide the actionable intelligence, in-depth analysis and speed to support your changing energy strategy.
This is what we call Intelligent Connections: empowering your company to discover previously unseen insights and opportunities, act fast, and deliver extraordinary outcomes.
A Technology Partner for the Future
Enverus is the most trusted knowledge and analytics platform in the energy industry, with real-time access to analytics, insights, benchmark costs, revenue data and more.
More than 300 financial institutions and more than 5,000 energy companies rely on our analytics, intelligence, and technology to make capital investment decisions and increase investor ROI.
Our platform is built both by, and for, our industry. Our source is our own connections — with direct access to more than 98% of U.S. producers, and more than 35,000 suppliers, we inform more efficient production and distribution, capital allocation, renewable energy development, investment and sourcing.
What We Provide
Our platform provides a centralized, single-source of truth, with energy analytics informed by more than 20 years of market intelligence and machine-learning.
For personal, customizable support, our highly experienced, sizable analyst team provides thought leadership, consulting and tech innovation.
Our goal is to build a long-term relationship with you, addressing your challenges today, while providing the tools for you to thrive tomorrow.
Our customers regularly report major production increases, substantial savings on labor costs, impressive savings and EUR improvements.
We provide a complete scope of the entire energy industry, including oil and gas, financial institutions, power, utilities and renewables. But we also illuminate their connections, and where they’re going.
Top Benefits
- Medical Plan
- Dental Plan
- Vision Plan
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
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