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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Data Engineer - **Company:** Grid Status, Inc. - **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $135,000.0 - $235,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Software Quality, Code Review, Databases, Data Files, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Github, Design of User Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Performance Tuning, Rapid Application Development, Systems Architecture, TypeScript, Web Applications, Scripting, ReactJS, Snowflake, Fastapi, Single Page Application, Stripe, Sentry, Data Management, Vertica, Software Coding, Data Pipelines - **Published:** August 31, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/platform-data-engineer-at-grid-status-new-york-ny--605e11ea-c32c-4b1d-b002-b971419cd285 ## About the Role As an early member of our engineering team, you will have a hand in both defining and implementing the product we deliver to customers. We take pride in building not only great products but also robust systems that allow for rapid development to meet our customers needs. The ideal candidate will enjoy taking on high-impact projects and executing them with a focus on high-quality, maintainable code. No experience in the energy industry is necessary-just a strong eagerness to learn. Our team's passion and expertise will help you quickly get up to speed., Application Programming Interface (API), Best Practices, Code Reviews, Coding Standards, Cross-Functional, Data Management, Data Sets, Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL), Energy & Utilities, GitHub, High Throughput, Internet Application, Legal, Machine Tool, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Problem Solving Skills, Production Control, Production Systems, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Rapid Application Development (RAD), Service Delivery, Service Level Agreement (SLA), Startup, System Architecture, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX) ## Description You will work on all aspects of our web application building highly-interactive and data-intensive new products that surface energy markets data while also extending features for existing products including: * Grid Status datasets * Live Market Pages * Nodal Price Map * and many more What youll do * Build the system that enables major product features for our API and web app * Extend data pipelines for ingesting data from 100s of sources, ensuring reliability, observability and performance at scale * Build new scrapers and ETL processes to add datasources to our growing data catalogue * Flex up and down the stack in order to take projects to the finish line * Design, implement, and operate self-scaling, self-healing services that handle high-throughput and low-latency workloads * Regularly participate in code reviews and help maintain high standards of code quality * Anticipate system bottlenecks and proactively re-architect key system components before they create issues for our customers * Develop and uphold best practices, coding standards, and engineering processes for the team * Instrument and monitor production systems to detect anomalies, prevent outages, and optimize performance * Collaborate across product, data, and infrastructure teams to solve complex, cross-functional challenges Who you are * You are willing to dive into problems and solve them yourself - as one of our early engineers, you won't have anyone to delegate to * You thrive when you own end-to-end delivery of features and services, from concept through deployment and ongoing maintenance * You are proficient at communicating asynchronously through writing, minimizing the need for disruptive meetings * Experience building complex single-page applications; experience working on UI/UX for data-intensive software is a big plus * You've successfully built and evolved systems to meet production SLAs at meaningful scale * You thrive working on small teams and being given a lot of autonomy * You are willing to dive into whatever layer of the stack is necessary to solve the problem the right way Legal right to work in the United States Technical skills and tools * Languages: TypeScript, Python * Stack: React, FastAPI, Postgres, DBT, ClickHouse, Snowflake, Stripe, Clerk, AWS, Render * Tooling: GitHub, Sentry, Better Stack Not sure if you meet all of the qualifications? 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