Gridware is looking to solve the problem of protecting and enhancing the electrical grid by developing a new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR). This involves monitoring electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid to improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure efficient operation. The company needs to build robust data systems to handle high volumes of sensor and grid event data for early issue detection, proactive maintenance, fault mitigation, wildfire risk mitigation, and real-time grid intelligence at scale.
Requirements
- 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.
- Expertise in Kubernetes, service mesh patterns, or cloud infrastructure for data-intensive systems.
- Background designing data governance frameworks or domain ownership models.
- Experience building high-SLA ingestion platforms for real-time monitoring or alerting systems.
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.
Other
- 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Architecture, or Distributed Systems roles.
- Proven ability to own complex systems end-to-end and influence technical strategy across teams.
- Experience with industrial IoT, sensor networks, or utility/energy data.
- Open-source contributions, publications, or talks in distributed systems or data platform architecture.
- Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)
