About Tapestry
Tapestry is Alphabet’s moonshot for the electric grid, working at the frontier where energy’s complexity meets AI’s potential. We were born at X, the innovation lab responsible for breakthrough technologies like Waymo, Verily and Google Brain.
To keep pace with humanity’s growing energy needs, the world needs a grid that is visible and understandable. We provide that clarity by building advanced, AI-enabled analytical and planning tools that allow the entire energy ecosystem to plan smarter, move faster, and operate more efficiently—ensuring electricity remains reliable and affordable for everyone.
This is a global effort. Tapestry is proud to support partners in the U.S., U.K., Chile, New Zealand, Australia and Brazil as they build a cleaner, more resilient energy future.
Joining Tapestry allows you to do the best work of your life as part of a multidisciplinary team of experts in AI, energy systems, software engineering and product design—all collaborating to reshape energy on a global scale. If you want to tackle problems that matter and build tools with real impact, we would love to meet you. Learn more about our team and our mission here.
About the role
As a backend infrastructure software engineer you will work across the entire platform, helping the team design & implement scalable, high performance infrastructure. You will work with amazing and talented people, who work on highly creative and ambitious efforts. You will work closely with other software engineers, machine learning experts, domain experts and product managers to plan, coordinate and integrate your work.
Come talk to us if you are passionate about climate and energy tech and have strong engineering chops to help push our electric grids towards the future!
How you will make 10X Impact
- Design and implement robust, end to end production-level software to make complex data accessible through enterprise class applications
- Drive technologies and product development for the energy domain, including data ingestion, storage and services from different sources.
- Work effectively with cross-functional teams of engineers, scientists, domain experts and PMs.
- Interface with external partners to refine technical requirements, and rapidly develop prototypes to evaluate feasibility
- Have strong software engineering/system design skills and being excited about solving complex problems at scale and navigating ambiguity
What you should have:
- At least 7-10 years of experience building large, complex software systems and applications
- Experience with large-scale data processing and modeling, designing backend services and building enterprise/consumer applications
- Experience with backend technologies such as Java/Kotlin/GoLang, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, Pub/Sub, monitoring
- Ability to work in small teams / rapid prototyping environment
It’d be great if you also had one or more of these:
- Experience building applications and infra leveraging the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) stack
- Working knowledge or background in power systems, though not required, would be a plus
- Experience with building full-stack applications including frameworks such as Angular
- Experience with RDF or any other graph database technologies
- Experience working in a Startup/early stage company with rapidly changing requirements and limited oversight
Our values
- Take charge: We take initiative and own outcomes that move the mission forward.
- Transform with purpose: We build solutions that solve real problems and create meaningful impact.
- Be a Tapestry, not a thread: We collaborate across diverse skills and perspectives to achieve more than we can individually.
- Always fine-tune: We stay curious, seek feedback, and refine our understanding as we learn.
- Stay grounded: We listen openly, value different perspectives, and stay focused on what matters most.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $161,000 - $194,000 + bonuses + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, or benefits.
Top Skills
What We Do
We create breakthrough technologies to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Born at Google, we got our start creating self-driving cars and smart glasses. Since then, we’ve continued to bring sci-fi ideas into reality.
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