Staff Software Platform Engineer

Description

The Platform team is responsible for deploying and maintaining common, cloud-based software and data infrastructure used across the company. This includes everything from our Snowflake data warehouse, to the K8s (EKS) clusters used to run our software, to the streaming platform that processes telemetry data from our product in the field. This role is intended to be a technical lead for cloud infrastructure development and management, and will work closely with a distributed team of data and platform engineers. A key focus of this role is to improve the reliability, security, and cost effectiveness of our software and data infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to bring your cloud engineering expertise to help advance the development of our transformational multi-day energy storage systems.

• Implement IaC for existing infrastructure when possible, and lead and advise on IaC deployment for new infrastructure
• Manage existing AWS infrastructure and lead its transition to the Well-Architected Framework
• Establish standards for security, performance, and up-time of software infrastructure, and ensure these are met with the help of the Platform team and other Software teams
• Cloud architecture including leading the design, deployment, and maintenance of software and data infrastructure used across Form to advance product design, engineering, manufacturing, and operations
• Collaborate with other teams across the company to define infrastructure requirements for products including web applications, data pipelines, machine learning models, physics simulation models, and grid planning models
• Standardize observability, monitoring, and alerting tools used across the organization

Requirements

• Curiosity, creativity, and tenacity when it comes to problem solving
• Evangelism for cloud security best practices and experience meeting standards like ISO 27001, UL 2900 or the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
• 7+ years of professional experience designing, building, and/or maintaining software and data infrastructure, preferably with extensive experience using AWS
• Experience working at both growth-phase startups and mid-to-large enterprises
• Strong command of python or go, and wizardry on the command line
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools like Pulumi, Terraform, and Ansible
• Networking fundamentals as they relate to K8s, site-to-site VPNs, and security
• Experience working with container orchestration tools, ideally AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or Elastic Container Service (ECS); experience with Helm and ArgoCD desirable

Benefits

Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here.

When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance