Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Connected Systems
Builds the cloud-side Connected Systems platform for Heron Power's grid-connected power electronics: telemetry pipelines, fleet monitoring, fault diagnostics, configuration management, and OTA firmware updates. Work spans edge devices, cloud infrastructure, and backend services, typically in Python, Go, Rust, or Java with Kafka-style event streaming.
- Compensation
- $163K–$207K / yr
- Location
- Scotts Valley
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of significant components of a distributed system
- Experience contributing to complex software products from design through production deployment
- Experience building or contributing to industrial IoT, telemetry, fleet management, or other large-scale connected systems
- Strong experience designing and implementing backend services in Python, Golang, Rust, Java, or similar languages
- Experience building telemetry ingestion, stream processing, or event-driven systems using Kafka or cloud-native equivalents
- Solid understanding of APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and data platform design
- Experience collaborating across firmware, hardware, manufacturing, test, and software teams
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in production environments
Nice to have
- Experience with fault detection, diagnostics, or prognostics systems
- Familiarity with industrial networking, SCADA, or edge computing architectures
- Experience with frontend technologies such as React
- Experience building systems supporting remote device management and firmware updates
Full description
What to Expect
Heron Power is a startup building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and cost-effective hardware and software solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything.
Our first goal is to build better converters (inverters & rectifiers) to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads to the grid. Heron’s leadership team is made up of seasoned veterans who have designed and shipped gigawatts of power conversion products.
We believe no one person knows everything. We learn together, build together, and solve hard problems from first principles. You’ll work in a fast-moving, deeply technical environment where ownership and impact are real.
Job Overview
As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, you will contribute to building scalable Connected Systems software, including telemetry pipelines, fleet management, system fault analysis, diagnostics, configuration management, and secure firmware updates for grid-connected energy systems.
You will participate in design, build, and operation of key components of Heron Power's Connected Systems platform. You'll work across edge devices, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, backend services, and user-facing applications used to monitor, diagnose, and operate grid-connected energy systems.
You will own meaningful components and services, contribute to production-critical capabilities, and collaborate closely with embedded, hardware, test, manufacturing, and frontend engineers to help deliver reliable, secure, and scalable end-to-end systems.
We're looking for a hands-on engineer who builds production software, solving complex distributed systems problems, and working across multiple engineering disciplines. You have experience delivering substantial software systems and owning technical outcomes from component design through operation.
Why This Role Is Different
This role owns critical components of larger software platform that enables smart functionality across Heron products and systems. You will create software that will run on energy-critical infrastructure deployed in challenging environments with limited connectivity and limited access. You will contribute to enabling Heron Care – industry first support and maintenance program ensuring continuous unit operation and supportability for extended periods of time. You will work on data systems that capture fleet-scale telemetry since device inception through decades of field operations.
How You Will Contribute
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Core Responsibilities
- Build scalable backend services and data platforms for industrial IoT deployments.