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Senior Software Engineer

United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Jun 2026

💰 $153,000/yr($135,000/yr – $153,000/yr)

About the role

Uplight is creating a new category of energy. We make software that manages energy resources in homes and businesses—including things like smart thermostats, electric vehicles, solar panels, storage batteries, heat pumps, and even people’s behavior—to generate, shift, or save energy to balance the grid, making it more efficient and reliable. This creates clean energy capacity that can be used by the power grid instead of burning more fossil fuels. Our solutions accelerate the transition to clean energy and save money for energy customers.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Virtual Power Plant (VPP) to drive our technology forward and help us lead the clean energy revolution. Uplight’s VPP platform provides AI-powered monitoring, forecasting, and dispatch tools to aggregate and orchestrate Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) across multiple asset classes, customer segments, and device types. Your work will directly enable grid operators to draw on flexible, dispatchable capacity at scale to support a variety of critical grid services. In this senior role, you will champion a "full service ownership" culture, taking features from design and development all the way through deployment, infrastructure management, and operational health.

How you will make an impact:

Develop and maintain the scalable backend services and robust APIs that power Uplight’s VPP platform, facilitating seamless access to curated data for internal users and external customers.
Champion a full service ownership culture by designing, deploying, and managing the underlying cloud infrastructure using modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
Build, optimize, and maintain robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure rapid, secure, and reliable delivery of code to production environments.
Design cost-effective, scalable data models for various relational and NoSQL databases, ensuring the systems can handle large-scale data storage and retrieval.
Implement automated systems and processes to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is consistently accurate and highly available for dependent business processes.
Ensure system reliability through rigorous unit and end-to-end regression testing, proactive system monitoring, performance benchmarking, and debugging of critical production issues.
Drive architectural design, implement best software engineering practices within the team, and proactively hedge technical risks to deliver projects predictably.
Collaborate closely with Product Management, Delivery, and Operations to translate customer challenges into new capabilities, while mentoring peers through constructive code reviews and technical guidance.

What you bring to Uplight:

BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a strictly related field.
5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of delivering scalable, production-grade systems.
Strong proficiency in Python (or similar object-oriented programming languages). You consider writing readable, testable, and maintainable code a core requirement and have a deep understanding of design patterns.
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS), building CI/CD pipelines and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
Solid working knowledge of various SQL and NoSQL databases, alongside deep technical expertise in at least one NoSQL database.
Extensive experience operating within Agile/Lean development environments with a strong commitment to full service ownership and operational excellence.

Bonus points:

Working with a smart, collaborative, and fun group of people solving big important problems
An exciting atmosphere, and an outstanding work/life balance
Beautiful, spacious, modern office in Redwood Shores
Competitive salary and equity
Competitive health care, dental, and vision coverage
Excellent 401(k) and flexible spending plans
10 paid public holidays and unlimited paid time off
Life, short term and long-term disability, supplemental, and AD&D insurance
Commuter transit, parking, biking, vanpool and park & ride benefits