Base Power Company · 1 month ago
Platform Engineer
Austin, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior LevelBase Power Company is America’s next-generation power company, transforming the electricity grid with a network of distributed batteries. As a Platform Engineer, you will design and operate shared infrastructure and core services that enhance how software and hardware systems are built, impacting the organization-wide performance and reliability.
BatteryElectrical DistributionEnergyEnergy ManagementEnergy StorageIndustrialPower Grid
Responsibilities
Work closely with backend, device, and hardware teams to define service interfaces, deployment patterns, and operational standards, with a focus on safely controlling and observing hardware-connected systems
Identify and reduce fragmented or siloed implementations as Base’s product surface area grows, consolidating systems through direct code and architectural changes where appropriate
Design, build, and maintain shared platforms and infrastructure that multiple engineering teams rely on in production
Introduce and evolve infrastructure and system patterns that support distributed services, production workloads, and hardware-integrated systems
Build tooling and defaults that make it easier for engineers to develop systems, both locally and in remote environments
Own and continuously improve CI/CD systems as the organization scales
Document platform architecture, design decisions, and recommended engineering practices to propagate context and good defaults across the organization
Qualification
Required
Experience working on complex or failure-prone systems, with clear opinions on why they broke down and how to design them better
A bias toward using code and architecture to make systems understandable, self-describing, and easy for other engineers to own
Strong experience in backend or infrastructure engineering within cloud-based environments
Hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
Experience defining and operating infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
Strong programming skills in languages commonly used for backend services or tooling (e.g., Go, Python)
Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, service-oriented architectures, and containerized workloads
Experience designing and evolving CI/CD systems and software delivery workflows
Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating across backend, device, and hardware-adjacent engineering teams
Comfort taking ownership of broad, evolving infrastructure responsibilities in a fast-moving environment
Company
Base Power Company
Base is building the future of American power. The grid is the largest, most complex machine in the world.
Founded in 2023
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (5)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$1.27BKey Investors
AdditionThrive Capital
2025-10-08Series C· $1B
2025-04-09Series B· $200M
2024-05-07Series A· $68M
Leadership Team
Zachary Dell
Co-Founder and CEO
Zina Bash
Chief Legal Officer
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