Senior Staff Software Engineer

Job Overview

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be one of the most senior individual contributors on the Software team, setting technical direction for the systems that run Heron Power from the full scale Build platform that powers our factory floor and supply chain to the internal tools, services, and data infrastructure our engineers and operators depend on every day. You will architect and build software end-to-end: backend services, data pipelines, developer tooling, and the cloud and deployment infrastructure underneath them. This is a hands-on, high-leverage role. You will write production code, design systems that scale from early production into volume manufacturing and raise the engineering bar across the team through architecture, code review, mentorship, and the standards you set. You are expected to own ambiguous, cross-cutting problems and drive them to shipped, reliable software with minimal direction. You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with hardware, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations teams, translating messy real-world requirements into systems that perform.

What You Will Bring

• 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.

Must-Have Requirements

• 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.
• Prior experience integrating third-party SaaS systems and making build-versus-buy decisions.

Salary and Benefits

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