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San Francisco, Boston, London, or RemoteAbout our CompanyEquilibrium Energy is revolutionizing the clean energy transition by developing innovative grid-scale energy storage solutions. Our technology and market platform helps utilities, independent power producers, and commercial customers optimize their renewable energy assets, improve grid reliability, and accelerate decarbonization. As a fast-growing climate tech company, we're building infrastructure that will shape the future of energy markets and enable a sustainable energy economy.Equilibrium Energy is a well-funded, Series B clean energy startup backed by some of the most prominent institutional investors in climate. New colleagues will share our vision that a next-generation energy company must be built from the ground up on deep industry expertise combined with an unwavering commitment to modern digital approaches. We’re looking for collaborative, talented, passionate and resourceful folks to join our team and help us lay the foundation for our important mission and ambitious plan.What we are looking forEquilibrium Energy is building the platform that will power the clean energy transition. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping our long-term data architecture. You’ll lead the design and implementation of high-impact data initiatives that support energy trading, forecasting, and AI development.This is a hands-on role that blends platform engineering, advanced data processing, and cross-functional collaboration. You’ll help scale our systems to enable near real-time decision-making and empower traders, data scientists, and operators to move faster with confidence.What you will doDesign and implement the long-term data architecture using modern technologies and frameworks.Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in Python, SQL, and dbt—ingesting data via APIs, web scraping, and streaming sources.Develop and operate data pipelines using orchestration frameworks such as Temporal and Dagster.Design data models and schemas for our cloud warehouse (Databricks) and relational databases; contribute to the development of our ML feature store.Optimize workflows for performance and cost efficiency.Drive large, cross-functional data initiatives from planning to execution.Partner with AI and engineering teams to ensure high-quality datasets for machine learning and analytics.Collaborate with product managers, scientists, and engineers to gather requirements and deliver robust data products.Mentor other engineers in best practices for data ingestion, architecture, and scalable pipeline design.Support the software testing cycle, debug code, and resolve issues found during QA or user acceptance testing.The minimum qualifications you’ll needBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.6+ years of progressive experience in data or software engineering.Advanced programming skills in Python and SQL.Experience building globally distributed data systems and real-time pipelines.Hands-on with orchestration/stream processing tools like Temporal, Dagster, Airflow, Spark, or Kafka.Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra).Familiarity with data warehousing and cloud computing (Databricks and AWS preferred).Experience mentoring engineers and providing architectural direction.Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work with unstructured or ambiguous datasets.Commitment to data quality, testing, and observability.Experience with both OLTP and OLAP data processing systemsNice to have additional skillsExperience with energy market data or weather data sources (e.g., NWS, NOAA, Yes Energy).Experience using dbt for transformations and data quality checks.Collaborating with data science teams to build and productionize ML pipelines.Familiarity with DataOps practices and CI/CD for data workflows.Knowledge of real-time data technologies, graph databases, or unstructured data processing.Understanding of power systems, grid operations, or financial aspects of energy trading.Not sure this is the right role for you?We are a high growth company with accelerating hiring needs so there’s a great chance we’ll be able to create a custom role for you, now or in the future. All roles, titles and compensation packages are tailored to the applicant, so apply anyways and tell us in your cover letter about your dream role.What we offerEquilibrium is composed of deeply knowledgeable industry experts across all our functions, with decades of experience in energy-specific commercial structuring, power systems engineering, machine learning, computational research, operations research, distributed and compute-intensive infrastructure, and modern software & ML engineering. Our experience in the space means we’ve previously built versions of nearly every technical component of our platform. We are now designing them better, and combining them in a holistic and novel way, to achieve global scale and climate impact. We pride ourselves on our deeply empathetic & collaborative culture, honest and direct but respectful communication, and our balanced, flexible, and remote-first work environment.Employee benefits include:Competitive base salary and a comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401k packageOpportunity to own a significant piece of the company via a meaningful equity grantUnlimited vacation and flexible work scheduleAbility to work remotely from anywhere in the United States, Canada & Europe, or join one of our regional hubs in Boston, SF Bay Area, or LondonAccelerated professional growth and development opportunities through direct collaboration and mentorship from leading industry expert colleagues across energy and techEquilibrium Energy is a diverse and inclusive, equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Apply for this job*indicates a required fieldFirst Name *Last Name *Email *PhoneResume/CVEnter manuallyAccepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtfEnter manuallyAccepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtfLinkedIn ProfileWebsiteWhat is your preferred work location? 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