About Gridware
Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware’s advanced Active Grid Response platform uses high-precision sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io.
This describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply!
Gridware Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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
- Architect services that stay correct and responsive as our fleet grows to hundreds of thousands of devices, designing for failure modes, graceful degradation and efficient data access.
- Build automation into core workflows, from automatic hazard reporting to automated device health analysis and remediations for Field Operations, so our operations scale efficiently.
- Own the technical vision for our most critical initiatives and drive the system design decisions that keep the platform reliable and secure.
- Foster a culture of ownership and a high engineering bar, with code quality, testing, observability, performance and operational excellence built in from the start.
- Mentor engineers at every level, and help grow our next technical leaders.
- 8+ years building and operating large-scale production systems, including scaling them through rapid growth.
- Deep experience in designing and scaling distributed data-intensive systems, overcoming reliability and performance challenges.
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, PostgreSQL and Kafka (or similar modern stack).
- Experience mentoring engineers and seeing them grow into senior technical roles.
- Strong product sense and a passion for building products that combine software, sensors, and the physical world.
- Experience developing real-time or event-driven systems (MQTT, WebSockets, gRPC, etc.).
- Familiarity with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, or Mimir.
- Background working in hardware–software ecosystems or IoT systems.
- This describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply!