Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

Our Mission

At Span, we are building products that enable the rapid adoption of renewable energy like home solar, batteries, and electric vehicles. The Span Smart Panel replaces the standard electrical panel to become the center for connected power in the home, providing revolutionary insights and home energy controls through the Span mobile app. 

Span has been named one of the best home innovations in 2020 by Fast Company and one of the Forbes Top 20 IoT Startups to Watch, in addition to receiving multiple awards from the US Department of Energy and National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

The Role

We are seeking an infrastructure engineer to join our team building the cloud based glue that gives our users access to the rich information and controls provided by the Span Panel. Our system collects a large volume of energy monitoring data that needs to be stored, processed and exposed in different ways for different end users. We're also opening up revolutionary levels of insight and control of the energy in the home that need to be accessed in secure and easy to use APIs.

You’ll join our cloud software engineering team bringing your infrastructure expertise to bear as we design, implement and manage the Span cloud system. You’ll work with other engineers including mobile, device firmware, and systems software in our broader software engineering group. Your infrastructure experience will help us ensure that the Span cloud is robust, secure and efficient.

Responsibilities

• Design infrastructure patterns to provide highly available, efficient, secure and observable components to the Span Cloud using the latest tools from AWS, Terraform and other SaaS providers.

• Work on the delivery of new and improved customer facing features for homeowners, installers and electricity utility companies.

• Continuously hardening and monitoring the Span Cloud for security and reliability.

• Build tooling to support the broad software engineering group in efficient operations.

• Setup automated build systems for building and deploying code, not just to the cloud but also with our firmware and mobile teams.

About You

Required Qualifications

We are seeking a seasoned backend engineer with several years demonstrating knowledge and experience in:

• 5+ years of experience in cloud software development of any kind. At least 3 of those years focussed on Infrastructure or SRE of those systems

• Collaborating with engineers from multiple domains, to complete infrastructure projects or support product deliverables

• Building AWS-based infrastructure including VPCs, Networking, Messaging (e.g. SNS, SQS, Kinesis), Compute (e.g. Lambda, EC2, Fargate) with Docker containers

• Infrastructure as code tools (e.g. Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Saltstack) and techniques for reusability and reliability of components.

• Understanding engineering principles and processes to design secure, robust, scalable and resilient infrastructure

• Collaborating with coworkers in shared code base using industry standard tools and processes including source control, linting and unit testing

• A common scripting language (e.g. JavaScript, Python), and desire to work with TypeScript and NodeJS.

Bonus Qualifications

We would love to hire someone with experience working in one or more of the following areas:

• Internet of Things (IoT) products (e.g. AWS IoT, Google Cloud IoT, something homegrown) or other hardware component to the product

• Managing Open Source or Third Party systems (e.g. ElasticSearch, Kafka, Hashicorp Vault) in AWS.

• Setting up CI/CD pipelines, especially for cloud, mobile and firmware applications.

• Network management and security in AWS (e.g. NAT Gateways, WAFs, Security Groups).

• Third party monitoring systems (e.g. Data Dog, Splunk)

• Testing and validation of Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terratest, unittesting CDK)

• Implementing on call and incident response strategies

• Setting up and testing disaster recovery plans

Life at Span

Span is a startup based in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. We are a small, diverse team of creative thinkers. We value open communication, teamwork, and a make-it-happen attitude - no job is too big or too small. We strive to make change by imagining what the future could be and building a product to complete that vision. We are looking to grow our team with talented people who are on the same mission to shape the future of energy.

Working at Span, you can expect:

• Competitive compensation at a well-funded, venture-backed company
• Comprehensive benefits including a choice of medical plans; dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• A sunny, airy office located close to BART and Caltrain public transit
• Regular team lunches, brown bag learning opportunities, board games nights, and other opportunities to connect with teammates - in-person and now virtually
• Equity grants at a quickly-growing startup
• Flexible hours and vacation time - we simultaneously work hard and make space for the important stuff
• To be a part of a team and culture that is hard-working, has a good sense of humor, values collaboration, and is just a little bit nerdy 

Span embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.