Data Engineer
About Base
Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.
About the Role
You will design, build, and operate the core data infrastructure. In this role, you’ll own critical data pipelines and datasets that support product development, grid operations, analytics, and business reporting.
You’ll work closely with engineers, operators, business teams, and analytics to understand data needs and turn them into scalable, reliable systems. This is a hands-on role with real ownership, your work will shape our data architecture as we grow and ensure it can scale with the company.
What You’ll Do
Design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines that ingest data from product, operational, and third-party systems into our data platform
Develop and own core data models and canonical datasets used across the company for analytics, reporting, and decision-making
Build and operate batch and streaming data workflows with a focus on correctness, performance, and scalability
Partner closely with EPD, operations, manufacturing, and business teams to understand data requirements and deliver practical solutions
Improve data quality, observability, and documentation so teams can confidently use data without deep context
Help define and evolve our data architecture, tooling, and best practices as the company scales
What You'll Bring
Deep experience in data engineering, or backend engineering with a strong data focus
Are comfortable building and maintaining production data pipelines using Go, Python, SQL, and modern data orchestration frameworks.
Have experience working with data warehouses and/or data lakes (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, or similar)
Have worked with distributed data processing or streaming systems (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Flink, or equivalents)
Care deeply about data quality, schema design, and building datasets that others can trust and understand
Enjoy working in fast-moving environments with evolving requirements and ambiguous problems
Take pride in building simple, reliable systems that solve real problems
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., AWS/GCP, Terraform)
About This Team
America's power grid is failing—electricity costs have risen even as generation gets cheaper, and blackouts are becoming more common. We're building the software that fixes it. Our team owns the entire stack: firmware that controls batteries in thousands of homes, trading algorithms that buy and sell power in real-time markets, distributed commanding systems that orchestrate a growing fleet as a single grid asset, factory software for our Austin manufacturing line, and the product experience that makes it all invisible to homeowners. If you want to write code that physically moves electrons, ships hardware, and reshapes critical infrastructure, this is the job.
Our Values
First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.
Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.
Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, and maintain a growth mindset.
Everyone’s an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results.
Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information.
Committed to the Mission: Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge. We work hard because we care deeply about the impact we’re creating. We work in-person. It’s not a 9-to-5. We are all-in.
Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit: Collaboration and celebration coincide with the intensity of building real things.
