We’re building a distributed, software-defined power plant: buildings, batteries, EVs, and on-site generation buying and selling power in real time. Think cloud control plane + embedded hardware + energy markets.
Own data integration and cloud infrastructure layer—the connective tissue between utilities, grid operators, OEM hardware, weather services, and our optimization engine. Responsibilities include: Wholesale market integrations (NYISO, CAISO, ERCOT) for real-time pricing and market signals; OEM hardware integrations via API and data bridges to building equipment manufacturers for monitoring, control, and telemetry; Green Button Connect pipelines ingesting interval consumption, billing, and meter data from utilities via OAuth2 and ESPI; Weather and solar forecast data pipelines; Utility bill reproduction engine modeling site economics before and after Strobe to forecast financial impact across multiple rate structures; Event-driven AWS infrastructure (Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync/GraphQL, EventBridge, IoT Core, TimeStream, Amplify, CloudWatch); Terraform IaC with modules, remote state, and multi-workspace patterns; Observability and alerting to prevent downtime during market events. Strong fit if you have: Deep AWS experience (IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync, EventBridge, TimeStream or similar TSDB); Production Terraform (modules, remote state, multi-workspace patterns); Extensive Python (pydantic for models, click for CLIs, boto3 for AWS, async pipelines); Experience integrating messy third‑party APIs at scale (utilities, government, energy, OEMs); Comfort with on-call for systems that control physical hardware and move real money. Stack: Python / TypeScript / Rust / Terraform / AWS / GraphQL (AppSync) / MQTT / Grafana. Small team, high ownership, no layers. 5 days/week onsite at Newlab, Brooklyn Navy Yard. eric@strobepower.com (mention HN) — LinkedIn or resume (PDF preferred).
