Infrastructure Software Engineer, Energy Storage

The role

The Infrastructure Engineer designs, builds, and maintains the foundational platform infrastructure for Battery Energy Storage Systems. This role owns edge fleet management, server provisioning, and deployment automation.

What you will do

• Design and own the rollout of edge Kubernetes fleet management, automated server provisioning, and software update pipelines.
• Evaluate server hardware and operating systems to help define the architecture of the next-generation energy storage platform.
• Identify and resolve hard infrastructure problems including scalability bottlenecks, reliability gaps, performance issues, and security vulnerabilities.
• Build and maintain tooling and services used to validate software systems at scale.
• Serve as a technical resource for the broader engineering team through pair programming, in-office working sessions, and hands-on project leadership.
• Translate learnings from early deployments and customer pilots into concrete, measurable improvements to platform infrastructure.
• Reinforce a team culture grounded in engineering excellence, curiosity, inclusivity, and a willingness to take action and learn from mistakes.

Required qualifications

• Strong grasp of system design principles and real-world experience building available, reliable, scalable, and secure distributed systems.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining secure network systems and infrastructure.
• Genuine interest in server hardware fundamentals and how software and hardware interact at the platform level.
• Ability to work comfortably with ambiguity, prototype solutions iteratively, and learn rapidly from early-stage work.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex systems clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams, shifting priorities, and competing deadlines in a fast-paced, early-stage environment.

Nice to have

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering.

About the company

Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel. It is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America.