Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer

$220K–$280K + equity Brooklyn, NY San Francisco, CA Full-time On-site

Strobe is building the world's largest power plant: not a single site, but a distributed fleet of buildings, batteries, EVs, and generators that buy and sell power in real time across wholesale energy markets.

Own the whole stack across cloud, edge, controls, and markets: set the architecture and raise the engineering bar.

What you'd own

• Set technical direction across the entire system, from edge control software to cloud pipelines and market integrations
• Make the hard build-vs-buy, reliability, and scaling calls as the fleet grows by orders of magnitude
• Set the engineering bar through architecture, code review, and the patterns the rest of the team builds on
• Production reliability and on-call for systems that control physical hardware and move real money
• Bridge engineering and the market, ops, and hardware sides of the business

Strong fit if you have

• A deep staff/principal track record; you still read and write code every day
• Owned a complex production system end to end: distributed cloud services plus the physical or real-time edge
• Set technical standards others adopt, without needing a title or process to do it
• Sound judgment under ambiguity, with energy markets, hardware, and regulation all moving at once
• Bias toward shipping, with the rigor to keep safety-critical systems trustworthy

Stack: Python / TypeScript / Rust / Terraform / AWS / GraphQL (AppSync) / DNP3 / MQTT / Grafana. AI-agent-optimized monorepo with deep investment in agent-enabled engineering efficiency.

Founding-level technical leadership. High ownership, no layers.