Backend Software Engineer (Tapestry)

About the team:

Tapestry is X’s moonshot for the electric grid. We’re transforming how the world makes, moves and uses electricity, using AI to reshape energy on a global scale.

We’re looking for curious minds who want to be a part of this extraordinary moment in energy. You would be joining a multidisciplinary team from a wide variety of experiences and backgrounds—from AI and power systems experts to software engineers and energy entrepreneurs– working together to realize Tapestry’s mission to make the grid visible so that everyone, everywhere can access reliable, abundant, and clean energy. 

Tapestry is incubating at X, Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory—the birthplace of breakthrough technologies like Waymo and Google Brain. At Tapestry, you’ll have the chance to be part of a rapidly growing team that has the agility and impact of an early stage company with the resources and technical excellence of Alphabet. If developing multimodal AI solutions gets you up in the morning and load growth challenges keep you up at night, we'd love to meet you.

Learn more about our team and our mission here.

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

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.