Data Engineer
About the role
Data Engineer role focused on building and maintaining pipelines and data systems powering Gridware’s Active Grid Response platform, with emphasis on telemetry, sensor data, and operational information flowing through a Lakehouse into analytics and monitoring tools.
Responsibilities
- Building ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest transformer, pole, and sensor telemetry into Gridware’s Data Lake and Lakehouse
- Developing and maintaining real-time and batch ingestion processes using Python, SQL, Databricks, and Spark
- Implementing data quality checks, validation rules, and automated testing for stable operations
- Collaborating with Software, Firmware, and Data Science teams to define ingestion schemas and transformations
- Working with cloud-native tools to optimize pipeline throughput and cost efficiency
- Monitoring pipelines for reliability, troubleshooting issues, and contributing to on-call rotations
- Writing documentation for data processes, models, and metadata
Qualifications
- 2–4 years of experience as a Data Engineer (or Backend Engineer with heavy data exposure)
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
- Familiarity with data warehouses, Lakehouse platforms, or big data tools (Databricks, Spark, or equivalent)
- Experience with pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, etc.)
- Understanding of event-driven systems or streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub)
- Solid foundation in data modeling, testing, and version control
- Ability to work collaboratively in a high-autonomy, fast-paced environment
Skills
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
About Gridware
Protecting the grid today, preparing the grid for tomorrow
Gridware exists to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everyone and makes our modern economy possible. But it’s also fragile. When the grid is compromised, everything grinds to a halt, and the consequences can be dire: wildfires burn, land is destroyed, property is damaged, progress stops, and lives are lost. Our team builds smart sensors that help utility companies to immediately detect, find, and fix outages and take steps to prevent new outages, and other related disasters, from happening at all. The need for power will only increase. We protect the grid of today while we build the grid of tomorrow. Gridware is privately held and backed by the best climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. We are headquartered in the Bay Area in northern California.
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