Senior Staff Software Engineer

About the role

Heron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything. Our first focus goal is to build better converters (inverters & rectifiers) to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads to the grid.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Systems Design: Set the technical direction for major systems across the platform designing services, data models, and APIs that are reliable, observable, and built to scale with the business.
• Hands-On Software Development: Write and ship production code across the stack, from backend services and data pipelines to internal tools, setting the standard for quality the rest of the team builds to.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Own how we provision and run infrastructure on AWS, defining infrastructure as code with Terraform or Pulumi and making the platform reproducible, secure, and cost-aware.
• CICD & Developer Experience: Build and harden the pipelines and tooling that move code from development to production with tools like GitHub Actions so the whole team ships quickly and safely.
• Kubernetes & Deployment: Design how our applications are containerized, orchestrated, and run in production on Kubernetes, with sensible defaults the team can rely on.
• Observability & Reliability: Define how we monitor, alert on, and debug our systems with tools like Grafana and Prometheus and own the practices that keep production healthy.
• Security & Data Integrity: Embed sound security practices access controls, secrets management, and least privilege and ensure the data flowing through our systems is accurate and trustworthy.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Raise the bar through code review, design reviews, and mentorship; help define engineering standards; and grow the engineers around you.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent demonstrated experience will be considered.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time at a Staff or Principal IC level owning the design of large production systems.
• Deep expertise building and operating backend services and distributed systems in production, with strong fundamentals in data modeling, APIs, and system design.
• Strong proficiency in one or more modern languages (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript) and comfort moving across the stack.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent), containers, and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing and owning CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling that let teams ship reliably (e.g., GitHub Actions).
• Solid grasp of observability, security, and operational best practices, monitoring, alerting, access controls, and secrets management.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to drive technical decisions and align engineers and stakeholders without relying on authority.
• A track record of leading ambiguous, cross-functional projects end-to-end and mentoring other engineers.

Qualifications

• Nice-to-Haves: Experience building software for manufacturing, supply chain, hardware, or other physical-world operations (MES, WMS, ERP, factory or industrial systems).
• Experience standing up platforms or internal tooling from greenfield at a fast-growing startup.
• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL, and with designing data pipelines and warehousing.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, message queues, or real-time / telemetry data.
• Expert-level comfort with Linux, Git workflows, and command-line tooling.
• Prior experience integrating third-party SaaS systems and making build-versus-buy decisions.

Benefits

Heron Power provides competitive compensation (salary and equity) and benefits. The salary for this role ranges $200,000 to $240,000 from per year.