Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Location : San Francisco, CA (Remote / Hybrid Available)

What is Verse?

Organizations today are under growing pressure to navigate the transition to clean energy — not just to meet sustainability goals, but to manage risk, control costs, and build long-term resilience. Yet the complexity of energy markets and a lack of accessible tools have made it difficult for most companies to take meaningful action. Verse was created to change that.

Our mission is to make the case for clean energy irrefutable. Through our AI-powered platform, Aria, we help organizations plan, procure, and operate clean energy to achieve their financial and sustainability goals. Verse transforms clean energy ambition into action — giving businesses the clarity and confidence to lead in a rapidly evolving energy landscape.

The Role

As a Staff Software Engineer focusing on Distributed Systems at Verse, you will work in collaboration with some of the brightest industry experts in the field building cloud-native applications that scale to trillions of data points collected from electricity markets globally. You will be a part of a dynamic, robust team primarily supporting the backend needs of our Aria software product spanning hundreds of data sources, sinks, services, and jobs.

Your expertise will not only have a direct impact on product decisions, but you also be well-positioned to drive the development and trajectory of our entire platform and infrastructure and influence important architectural decisions that affect the whole organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Foster a culture and mindset of well-designed systems, test-driven software, and transparent communication with a high caliber of mutual respect and consideration for stakeholders
• Read and write a lot of Go, Python, and Protobuf
• Build, test, debug, maintain, and scale our ecosystem of backend services and APIs with hyper-precise data structure alignment
• Design, implement, and coordinate critical application interface and database model changes, migrate and evolve schemas, and scale queries for multiple product work streams
• Interoperate with various storage and retrieval systems for both structured and unstructured data sets across the entire stack
• Troubleshoot and enhance system performance, reliability, and security to meet the evolving needs of the business
• Collaborate closely with product managers, UX designers, and frontend engineers to vet user requirements and data provenance with an end-to-end mindset
• Work on occasion in the platform and infrastructure layers to develop deployment automation, observability, monitoring, and alerting tools
• Actively participate in code reviews, maintain technical documentation, and adhere to best software development practices.

What We're Looking For (Minimum Qualifications)

What Will Make You Standout (Preferred Qualifications)

What Makes Verse a Great Place to Work?

Base Pay Range

$194,000 - $250,000

This is the estimated base salary range for this position, which does not include the value of benefits or a potential equity grant. A wide range of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to level, skill sets, market conditions, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs.

Benefits and Employee Perks

Verse is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and compensation without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital or familial status.

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