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Data Engineer, Active Grid Response
Job Location:
Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
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Not provided by the employer
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Posted:
2 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
29 September 2026
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
About Gridware
Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR) focused on monitoring the electrical physical and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridwares advanced Active Grid Response platform uses high-precision sensors to detect potential issues early enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety reduce outages and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information please visit.
Role Overview
As a Data Engineer at Gridware youll help build and maintain the pipelines and data systems powering our Active Grid Response platform. Youll work closely with cross-functional engineers to ensure telemetry sensor data and operational information flows reliably through our Lakehouse and into analytics and monitoring tools. This is a hands-on high-growth role ideal for engineers ready to deepen their expertise in distributed data systems.
Responsibilities
- Building ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest transformer pole and sensor telemetry into Gridwares Data Lake and Lakehouse
- Developing and maintaining real-time and batch ingestion processes using Python SQL Databricks and Spark
- Implementing data quality checks validation rules and automated testing for stable operations
- Collaborating with Software Firmware and Data Science teams to define ingestion schemas and transformations
- Working with cloud-native tools to optimize pipeline throughput and cost efficiency
- Monitoring pipelines for reliability troubleshooting issues and contributing to on-call rotations
- Writing documentation for data processes models and metadata
Required Skills
- 24 years of experience as a Data Engineer (or Backend Engineer with heavy data exposure)
- Strong proficiency inPythonandSQL
- Familiarity with data warehouses Lakehouse platforms or big data tools (Databricks Spark or equivalent)
- Experience with pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow Dagster Prefect etc.)
- Understanding of event-driven systems or streaming platforms (Kafka Kinesis Pub/Sub)
- Solid foundation in data modeling testing and version control
- Ability to work collaboratively in a high-autonomy fast-paced environment
Bonus Skills
- Experience with IoT telemetry ingestion or time-series data
- Exposure to Unity Catalog governance or schema enforcement
- Understanding of Protobuf Avro Parquet or serialization formats
- Hands-on experience with observability tools (Grafana OpenTelemetry)
$160000 - $175000 a year
**At this time Gridware is unable to provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this role. Were only able to consider candidates who are currently authorized to work in the country of employment without visa sponsorship now or in the future.**
This describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list we encourage you to apply!
Benefits
Health Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)
Paid parental leave
Alternating day off (every other Monday)
Off the Grid a two week per year paid break for all employees.
Commuter allowance
Company-paid training
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
**At this time, Gridware is unable to provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this role. We’re only able to consider candidates who are currently authorized to work in the country of employment without visa sponsorship now or in the future.** This describes the ideal candi ... View more
