Sr. Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer
About Amperon
Amperon is the leading energy forecasting company, positioned at the intersection of energy data and AI. Founded in 2018, Amperon has become a trusted partner for power and utility companies, delivering demand, renewable generation, and price forecasts. With cutting-edge predictive analytics, seamless data integrations, and premium customer support, Amperon enables customers to enhance grid reliability and optimize asset performance. Committed to grid modernization, Amperon is the forecasting company of the energy transition.
We bring the brightest minds together across energy, software engineering, AI and ML, and SaaS to accelerate the energy transition and deliver value to our energy market participants every day.
About the Role
We're seeking a Senior Software/Data Engineer to join our product-oriented or internal services team as an individual contributor. You'll have direct impact on our products while gaining deep expertise in electricity markets, data feed processing, weather modeling, and our modern tech stack.
Our Tech Stack
Python, Azure, Kubernetes, MySQL, ClickHouse, Snowflake, Docker, Argo Workflows, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana
This role emphasizes designing and building scalable, maintainable systems—not just SQL transformations. You'll architect infrastructure that powers our forecasting capabilities and drives business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Automate end-to-end ML operations — Build and maintain pipelines covering data collection, preprocessing, model training, and deployment
- Optimize system performance — Monitor, profile, and enhance data processing workflows to reduce latency and improve efficiency
- Implement robust monitoring — Set up real-time alerts and anomaly detection for critical data feeds
- Scale infrastructure — Leverage distributed computing and parallel processing to handle growing data volumes
- Drive architectural improvements — Identify and rebuild systems for better performance, maintainability, and cost efficiency
- Design for the future — Build data infrastructure that scales seamlessly with business growth
You’ll be Successful if in this Role if You Have
- Senior-level expertise in backend services and data engineering using Python
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes/Docker) and data services (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Proven track record building production data pipelines and backend services with measurable business impact
- Experience working in large codebases with focus on refactoring and systematic improvements
- Background building scalable data monitoring and observability systems
Your Approach
- You thrive in complexity and find satisfaction in simplifying systems
- You make software more maintainable, scalable, and extensible
- You collaborate effectively while also driving independent projects to completion
- You leverage AI-augmented development tools to increase productivity
Ideal Background
- Senior Software Engineer with data-intensive systems experience
- Senior Backend Engineer with pipeline development expertise
- Senior ML Engineer with production infrastructure experience
Benefits & Perks
Amperon is a company filled with smart, genuinely nice individuals who are passionate about data science, energy and working together to build a product that can have a lasting impact on our planet.
Below are several of our employee benefits:
- Competitive base salary
- Stock option package in a rapidly growing, venture-backed company
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
- 401k Plan (for US based employees)
- Annual company retreat
- Flexible PTO policy
- Remote-first company and culture