[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure @Voltus

Role Description

Are you interested in building the technical foundation of the worldwide transition to clean energy? Do you enjoy working with a highly motivated and talented team to deliver mission critical software?

Voltus is growing our Infrastructure team to help deploy, manage, troubleshoot, and enhance the Platform and tooling that every Voltus engineer and our dispatch-critical systems depend on. As a Senior Software Engineer on Infrastructure, you will own significant pieces of our core Platform, mentor other engineers, and help set the technical direction for how we build, deploy, and operate services at Voltus.

You will join a team of [N] engineers supporting roughly [M] engineers across the org, so the leverage on your work is high and so is the responsibility.

Our Platform runs on HashiCorp's Nomad, Consul, and Vault in AWS. We are specifically looking for someone who brings deep Kubernetes experience to this team, because we expect to run Kubernetes workloads alongside Nomad and that is depth we do not have in house today.

You will develop the tooling that lets every engineering team ship reliably, build the testing and observability that keeps our real-time systems healthy, and help shape how we safely fold AI-assisted development and tooling into our day-to-day engineering.

When Voltus commits capacity to a grid operator, we are obligated to deliver it. That shapes how this team works: changes are planned around live dispatch windows, sequenced so each step can be rolled back, and owned by the person who made them, including on call.

Voltus is a fully distributed company and this role is remote. You can work from anywhere, but you must overlap with the Eastern time zone for at least 4 hours of the workday.

What You'll Do

• Own core Platform services and major migrations end to end, from proposal to production.
• Run our containerized workloads and the delivery path that ships them — orchestration and scheduling, GitOps-style deploys, progressive rollout and rollback, and service mesh.
• Architect and operate our AWS foundation.
• Treat identity, secrets, and encryption as first-class infrastructure.
• Operate the stateful systems everything else sits on: database upgrades and replication, message brokers in the critical path, caches and time-series stores, and backup coverage and restores.
• Instrument deeply for observability: distributed tracing, meaningful metrics and SLOs, and the testing frameworks that keep dispatch comms and market message flows healthy.
• Build the infrastructure as code and developer tooling the whole org depends on.
• Help build the infrastructure that AI runs on.

Qualifications

• Strong production software development experience in Go and/or Python.
• Roughly 6+ years of professional software engineering, with several in DevOps / SRE operating production systems.
• A track record of owning meaningful infrastructure projects end to end.
• Real depth in AWS, beyond launching resources in a single account.
• Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience in production.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills (Terraform or similar).
• Real depth in monitoring and observability.
• Hands-on operational experience with stateful systems.
• Comfort operating and improving systems you did not build.
• You communicate clearly, write good documentation, mentor teammates, and can drive cross-team coordination on shared infrastructure.
• You are genuinely excited about AI-assisted development and the role of AI in modern infrastructure.

Nice to Have

• Experience with the HashiCorp stack (Nomad, Consul, Vault).
• Experience introducing Kubernetes to an organization that did not already run it.
• Experience running self-hosted CI and build tooling (Jenkins, ArgoCD, artifact repositories).
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, or with consolidating several overlapping monitoring tools into one coherent stack.
• Experience testing event-driven workflows, and with managed streaming platforms such as MSK.
• Experience with AWS Organizations and Control Tower.
• Experience owning an identity migration or SSO consolidation.
• Experience building internal developer tooling or CLIs.
• Ability to read Java or C++ well enough to debug and modify services in those languages.
• Hands-on experience with AI developer tooling or with running model infrastructure.
• Interest in the energy industry and the clean energy transition.

Compensation

Base pay is $160,000-$190,000 annually, commensurate with experience, with a 10% annual bonus, and equity. Voltus also offers a range of benefits including:

• Unlimited PTO for full-time employees.
• Parental leave.
• A comprehensive benefits package to promote health, wellness, and financial security.

Please include a link to your GitHub account in your application (in the “links” section). Applications without a GitHub account will not be considered.

Please note that at this time, we do not sponsor visas or transfers for new hires. Voltus teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location (in the US or Canada, unless otherwise indicated on the role description).

Additionally, while Voltus is an all-remote workplace, we have limitations on where employees are able to work for regulatory and security reasons. We expect that Voltans are working primarily from their home country.

At Voltus, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer because we recognize that a diverse organization begins with a diverse candidate pool.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses.