Staff Engineer

Strobe Power | Founding Engineer | ONSITE (Brooklyn or SF) | https://strobepower.com AI data centers are creating a massive new wave of electricity demand, and the grid is already stretched. Strobe is building an autonomous power company to help meet that demand: software that turns buildings, batteries, EVs, and generators into a distributed power plant that can buy, sell, and dispatch electricity in real time. We’re a 6-person, well-funded team backed by top investors. This is early, high-ownership, and very real-world: the software you build will control physical assets and move money in energy markets. We are the only company actively trading distributed power in New York - the space is entirely new and unlocked by recent FERC regulation. I’m looking for a staff engineer to own the data integrations and cloud infrastructure that make the whole system work. That means connecting to utilities, grid operators, OEM hardware, weather providers, and our optimization engine — then making sure it all runs reliably when market events are happening and dollars are on the line. You’d work on things like: * Wholesale market integrations with NYISO, CAISO, ERCOT: pricing, capacity markets, dispatch signals * OEM hardware integrations for monitoring, control, and telemetry * Utility data pipelines, including Green Button Connect / ESPI, interval usage, billing, and meter data from utilities like ConEd, PG&E, and SCE * Weather forecast pipelines feeding our scheduling engine * Event-driven AWS infrastructure using Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync/GraphQL, EventBridge, IoT Core, Timestream, Amplify, and CloudWatch * Terraform IaC, observability, alerting, and the reliability work needed when downtime has real financial consequences Good fit if you have deep AWS experience, have used Terraform seriously in production, and write a lot of Python. Energy experience is a plus, but not required. Experience with utilities, government APIs, OEMs, hardware, telemetry, or other “real world is messy” systems is very relevant. Stack: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Terraform, AWS, GraphQL/AppSync, MQTT, Grafana. We use an AI-agent-optimized monorepo and are investing heavily in agent-enabled engineering efficiency. Small team, no layers, high trust. Apply: keeley@strobepower.com or https://strobepower.com/careers. Please mention Hacker News.