Plus Power

Design, build, and operate backend services and internal platforms with a focus on reliability, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines. | 5+ years in backend/platform engineering with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, and operational experience, plus strong communication and collaboration skills. | Job Description: • Design, build, and operate backend services, internal platforms, and shared infrastructure that enable data pipelines, analytics, and application workloads. • Apply a strong focus on CI pipeline design, operational reliability, and cloud cost awareness as first-class engineering concerns. • Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable production code, primarily in Python. • Partner with application and data engineers to define service boundaries, APIs, data contracts, and operational requirements. • Contribute to architectural decisions with an emphasis on long-term maintainability, reliability, and clarity. • Architect and operate AWS-based, cloud-native systems with an emphasis on reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency. • Own the full lifecycle of platform and service components, including design, implementation, deployment, observability, and incident response. • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to manage cloud assets and operational workflows. • Enable and support data platforms, analytics systems, and ML-adjacent workloads through reliable backend and platform services. • Design systems that integrate with relational databases, object storage, and event-driven data flows. • Work closely with data engineers and analysts to ensure systems meet requirements for data correctness, availability, and performance. • Set and evolve best practices for cloud-based data management through platform design, automation, and standards. • Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that test, validate, and deploy both application and infrastructure code. • Establish and maintain observability standards using metrics, logs, and alerts. • Participate in on-call rotations and lead root cause analysis and long-term system improvements following incidents. Requirements: • 5+ years of professional experience across platform engineering, backend engineering, data engineering, CloudOps, or SRE roles. • Strong backend development experience, including building and operating production services or internal platforms. • Prior experience on data platform, analytics, or ML infrastructure teams preferred. • Significant hands-on experience with AWS, including services such as VPC, IAM, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, and related managed services. • Familiarity with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, or streaming data patterns preferred. • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation). • Experience operating containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in production environments. • Solid understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and automated testing. • Strong operational mindset, including comfort owning production systems and participating in on-call rotations. • Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services preferred. • Experience working with relational databases and data-intensive systems. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to diverse audiences. • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a cross-functional environment with both technical and non-technical team members who are geographically dispersed. • Proven ability to stay connected and maintain communication across distributed teams in hybrid or remote settings. Benefits: • Highly competitive total compensation • Flexible, work from home or hybrid work from Plus Power’s offices in San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Seattle, New York, Palm Beach and Birmingham. • Unlimited vacation • Work from home stipend • Educational assistance • Parental leave • Highly engaging company culture with opportunities for in-person connection and learning and growth.