Principal Data Engineer

Role Description

As a Principal Data Engineer, you will:

• Design and implement software solutions that turn millions of electric vehicles, smart thermostats, batteries, and other energy IoT devices into resources that help create a cleaner and more resilient grid.
• Design and implement systems for ingesting and managing data from core utility software systems, such as meter data management systems, geographic information systems, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), EMS/SCADA and others.
• Operate almost completely independently to find potential solutions, design them, identify roadblocks and challenges, and parcel out the work to senior engineers on various different teams.
• Build influence across teams and across functions to take on initiatives that impact the whole company, chart out the relevant dependencies and tradeoffs, and help teams execute on the shared roadmap you build.
• Develop new ways of connecting our systems to energy markets and the systems that balance the electric grid.
• Develop APIs and tools that enable hardware manufacturers and third-party enterprise software systems to integrate with our platform.
• Collaborate with our analytics and machine learning teams to deliver new data insights and optimize our virtual power plants.
• Improve the scale, automation, and reliability of our massive pipeline of device telemetry, energy, and weather data.
• Introduce and devise tools, techniques, and best practices that benefit the entire team.
• React to and resolve novel technical, operational, and organizational challenges.
• Contribute to our team culture and inclusive environment.
• Mentor early career engineers and more senior engineers on the teams you interact with.

Qualifications

• 10+ years professional software development experience.
• Python and SQL (of any flavor) experience required.
• Experience building out data pipelines and ELT / ETL systems.
• Comfortable leading system design and architecture.
• Experience with data warehouses (we use Snowflake) and data modeling.

Requirements

• Designing and building data pipelines within an electric utility.
• Familiar with tools and technologies like airflow, dbt, AWS kinesis, S3.
• Typical development tools and processes (automated testing, continuous integration/deployment, monitoring systems).
• Java or MongoDB.
• Sigma, Tableau or similar BI tools.

Benefits

• Collaborate with outstanding people.
• Make an immediate impact.
• Gain well-rounded experience.
• Work with the latest technologies.
• Be part of something important.

Company Description

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. We help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and other products into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power.

Company Benefits

• EnergyHub offers a generous benefits package including 100% paid medical for employees and a 401(k) with employer match.
• We offer a casual environment, the flexibility to set your own schedule, a fully stocked fridge and pantry, free Citi Bike membership, secure bike rack, gym subsidy, paid parental leave, and an education assistance program.