Job Summary:
Base Power Company is America’s next-generation power company focused on transforming the electricity grid through distributed batteries. The Software Engineer on the Data Infrastructure team will design, build, and operate backend systems that manage data from various sources and ensure its quality and accessibility for the company’s operations.
Responsibilities:
• Build and maintain the core backend systems that ingest, transform, and serve data across the company -- from raw telemetry and operational events to clean, queryable datasets used in dashboards, models, and APIs.
• Design, build, and operate reliable batch and streaming data pipelines with a focus on correctness, performance, and scalability.
• Own ETL processes end-to-end, from source system integration through to production delivery.
• Build foundational schemas and canonical datasets that store high-volume time-series and event data in a way that stays searchable, performant, and scalable.
• Own core data models used across the company for analytics, reporting, and decision-making.
• Manage ingestion across a wide range of data sources -- IoT telemetry, third-party APIs, operational systems, and internal services -- and build the infrastructure to synchronize and join them reliably.
• Build and maintain platforms that let cross-functional teams query, explore, and visualize data without needing to understand the underlying infrastructure.
• Ensure source-of-truth datasets are consistent, documented, and trustworthy.
• Improve observability so teams can use data with confidence.
• Help define and evolve our data architecture, tooling, and best practices as we scale.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years in data engineering or backend engineering with a strong data focus
• Deep experience building data infrastructure -- data warehouses, data lakes, streaming systems, or similar (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks)
• Strong coding skills in Python and SQL
• Comfortable building and maintaining production pipelines using modern orchestration frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Prefect, dbt)
• Experience integrating diverse data sources -- APIs, event streams, relational databases, flat files
• Deep care about data quality, schema design, and building systems others can trust and extend
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., GCP or AWS, Terraform)
• Comfortable working in fast-moving environments with evolving requirements -- you write simple, reliable systems that solve real problems, not over-engineered ones
Preferred:
• Experience with Go or another compiled language is a plus
Company:
Base is building the future of American power. The grid is the largest, most complex machine in the world. Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Austin, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.