Lead design and build of scalable backend systems and data platforms; own architecture and production deployments; improve reliability performance and observability; mentor engineers and collaborate with Product Data Science SRE and Security.

Description
Principal Software Engineer
Why YOU want this position
At Enverus we're committed to empowering the global quality of life by helping our customers make energy affordable and accessible to the world.
Th e are the most trusted energy-dedicated SaaS company with a platform built to maximize value from generative AI and our innovative solutions are reshaping the way energy is consumed and managed. By offering anytime anywhere access to analytics and insights we're helping our customers make better decisions that help provide communities around the world with clean affordable energy.
The energy industry is changing fast. But we've continued to lead the way in energy technology creating intelligent connections across the entire energy ecosystem from renewables power and utilities to oil and gas and financial institutions. Our solutions create more efficient production and distribution capital allocation renewable energy development investment and sourcing and help reduce costs by automating crucial business operations. Of course this wouldn't be possible without our people which is why we have built a team of individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds.
Are you ready to help power the global quality of life? Join Enverus and be a part of creating a brighter more sustainable tomorrow.
As part of the Power & Energy Transition business unit you'll help build systems that support congestion analysis forecasting and grid optimization across North American power markets. Our platform combines distributed systems machine learning large-scale data processing and complex computational models to deliver critical insights in near real time.
We're looking for a Principal Engineer who enjoys solving difficult technical problems building highly sca lable systems and helping shape the technical direction of a rapidly growing platform.
The role
This is a hands-on technical leadership position.
You'll design and build production systems lead architectural initiatives mentor engineers and partner with Product SRE Security and other engineering teams to deliver reliable scalable software. We expect Principal Engineers to remain deeply involved in implementation while driving technical strategy across multiple systems and teams.
What you'll do

• Design build and operate highly scalable backend systems and data platforms.
• Lead architecture and technical decision-making across multiple services and product areas.
• Own complex engineering initiatives from design through production deployment.
• Improve system reliability observability performance and operational excellence.
• Simplify and modernize existing systems as technologies and business needs evolve.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews code reviews and technical leadership.
• Collaborate closely with Pro duct Data Science SRE and Security teams.

What you'll bring

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building highly scalable distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on programming experience in Python Go or Rust.
• Experience with data-intensive applications pipelines and large-scale processing systems.
• Experience working with Kubernetes and a major cloud platform (AWS GCP or Azure).
• Strong understanding of system architecture software design and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and ownership of large engineering initiatives.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience optimizing computationally intensive systems or algorithms.
• Experience with high-performance computing (HPC). Experience with energy markets power systems or other highly complex domains.
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure and production AI systems.

Technologies we use
Python Go Rust Kafka MySQL ClickHouse Kubernetes Docker AWS Terraform Pulumi Argo Grafana Sentry Honeycomb Claude AWS Bedrock and LangChain .
While experience with every technology is not required successful candidates will have deep expertise in several areas and the ability to quickly learn new technologies as needed.
What We Offer
Enverus offers comprehensive benefits to our employees to include:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Income Protection (disability life/AD&D critical illness accident)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Healthcare Spending Account (HSA) Commuter
• Lifestyle & Wellbeing Program
• Pet Insurance

This role is eligible for: Variable Compensation
Salary Range: 140000-160000