Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Cloud & Real Time Infrastructure

Role Description

Antora Energy is seeking an engineer to own the real-time cloud infrastructure connecting our software systems to physical hardware. Every five minutes, our software determines how our thermal batteries should charge and discharge. Those decisions must travel reliably through our messaging infrastructure and reach physical assets in the field. In the other direction, plant telemetry flows from the edge into our cloud data warehouse, where it must be complete, timely, and trustworthy enough to support operational decisions and financial trading.

You’ll also own the corporate cloud platform that the rest of the company builds on. While these systems have very different service-level requirements, they share a need for thoughtful architecture, strong operational practices, and reliable tooling.

We’re hiring one person for a scope that many companies divide across multiple teams. This is a high-impact opportunity to establish platform-wide standards, unify observability, and shape our infrastructure and operational strategy from end to end.

What You'll Do

• Own the Real-Time Telemetry and Dispatch Path
  • Own the full data path from the edge, through streaming ingestion, into the warehouse, and back out to asset dispatch.
  • Define service-level objectives, build freshness and gap detection, and ensure silent data loss becomes an actionable alert.
• Manage Our AWS Infrastructure as Code
  • Own and evolve our AWS footprint across multiple accounts using Terraform.
  • Operate containerized services on ECS and Lambda and manage orchestration, networking, secrets, access controls, and supporting infrastructure.
  • Design systems with failure modes, blast radius, observability, capacity, and recovery in mind from the beginning.
• Advance an AI-First Software Development Lifecycle
  • Build the systems that make agent-authored changes safe at scale, including fast and trustworthy CI, hermetic test infrastructure, preview environments, progressive delivery, and automated guardrails.
  • Establish cost controls and verification workflows that allow autonomous development systems to operate without requiring supervision.
• Own Reliability for Systems Connected to Physical Assets
  • Participate in the on-call rotation for systems that dispatch instructions to a physical plant.
  • Build the observability, alerting, and response processes needed to identify problems before they affect field operations.
  • Define clear escalation paths across cloud infrastructure, site controls, and our market operations desk.
• Build a Platform Engineers Want to Use
  • Treat infrastructure as an internal product.
  • Create self-service tools, paved paths, and platform capabilities that help engineers ship safely without unnecessary friction.
  • Set standards where consistency matters while avoiding process for process’s sake.

Qualifications

• Deep production infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on site reliability experience.
• Experience with real-time or physical systems.
• An internal-product mindset.
• Strong programming skills.
• Practical experience with AI development tools.
• Sound operational judgment.
• A willingness to learn across the stack.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with industrial and operational technology protocols, including MQTT or Sparkplug B.
• Familiarity with platforms such as HiveMQ, NATS, Ignition, or industrial historians.
• Experience operating across strict OT/IT boundaries.
• Experience with air-gapped or intermittently connected environments.
• Expertise in time-series or high-cardinality data at scale.
• Experience with ClickHouse, Dagster, or streaming ingestion systems.
• Experience building developer tooling specifically for AI coding agents.
• Familiarity with sandboxing, AI cost governance, or agent-readable test output.
• Experience with energy markets, dispatch systems, or grid-connected assets.

Work Location

Remote / US based

Salary Range

$183-240k USD

Salary Basis

Please note that the salary range listed above reflects Antora Energy's estimated pay for this position. The actual salary offered will be within the posted range and determined based on several factors including but not limited to a candidate's experiences, credentials and expertise, as they pertain to the position's requirements.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Equity compensation in the form of stock options.
• Premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance.
• 401K plan with employer contributions.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Industry leading paid-time-off policy that features flexible and inclusive holiday observance, as well as paid volunteer time off.

Company Description

When it comes to stopping climate change, we need everyone. We believe that having a diversity of backgrounds and experiences strengthens all of us, and we strive to create an environment where every one of us is empowered to create meaningful change.