Gridware · 1 day ago
Staff Data Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
10+ years expGridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. As a Staff Data Engineer / Data Architect, you will define and build the architecture of critical data systems, partnering across various teams to establish a long-term data platform vision that enables fault detection and real-time grid intelligence.
EnergyInternet of ThingsPower GridSoftware
Responsibilities
Architect and scale high-throughput ingestion systems for sensor telemetry, device metadata, and real-time grid events
Design end-to-end data platform architecture, including Lakehouse structures, governance layers, data domains, and lineage standards
Lead the evolution of our Event Streaming Platform, including schema strategy, Protobuf evolution, retention policies, and reliability models
Develop fault-tolerant, self-healing data services that maintain availability during storms, outages, and high-volume event bursts
Drive multi-quarter, multi-team data initiatives and partner across engineering to establish consistent ingestion contracts, schemas, and standards
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Architecture, or Distributed Systems roles
Expert-level knowledge of event streaming (Kafka/Kinesis), distributed compute (Spark/Databricks), and Lakehouse architectures
Demonstrated experience designing large-scale, real-time telemetry or IoT data pipelines with strong reliability requirements
Deep understanding of partitioning, backpressure, consistency models, and distributed system internals
Proven ability to own complex systems end-to-end and influence technical strategy across teams
Preferred
Experience with industrial IoT, sensor networks, or utility/energy data
Expertise in Kubernetes, service mesh patterns, or cloud infrastructure for data-intensive systems
Background designing data governance frameworks or domain ownership models
Open-source contributions, publications, or talks in distributed systems or data platform architecture
Experience building high-SLA ingestion platforms for real-time monitoring or alerting systems
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
Company
Gridware
Gridware is a grid‑technology company dedicated to improving safety and reliability on the electrical transmission and distribution systems.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$97.2MKey Investors
Sequoia Capital
2025-11-17Series B· $55M
2025-01-08Series A· $26.4M
2023-06-13Seed· $10.5M
Leadership Team
Timothy Barat
Co-Founder & CEO
Abdulrahman Bin Omar
Chief Product Officer & Co-founder
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