Platform Engineer (Data)

Role : Platform Engineer (Data)

Location : San Francisco Bay Area.

Hybrid (3 days onsite, 2 days remote). Full time.

About the job :

Advantra is partnering with a seed-stage AI energy startup in San Francisco Bay Area to hire a Platform Engineer (Data) to build and scale data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and backend systems for AI-driven energy optimization.

About the role :

You will own TrueMeter's data pipelines, proprietary sources, cloud infrastructure, and LLM stack. Build APIs, secure storage, and backend services. Document standards, mentor engineers, and help scale the platform. Work directly with co-founder and CTO to design production-grade systems.

Responsibilities :

• Build and maintain API connectors to energy company portals and public databases.
• Design end-to-end encryption / decryption workflows for credentials and API keys.
• Architect secure cloud storage and access controls in GCP.
• Define schemas and ingestion pipelines for high-volume telemetry and time-series data.
• Develop production-grade backend services for ETL, scheduling, and microservices in Python (and TypeScript).
• Implement CI / CD, automated testing, logging, metrics, alerts, and error handling.
• Document architecture, set technical standards, and mentor engineers.
• Guide code reviews and design discussions across the engineering team.

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How to apply :

Email careers@theadvantra.com with links to shipped work and a short note on what you owned. Company name shared after the intro.

About Us :

Advantra-Upstart Crew is a search program inside Advantra Consulting. We partner with early stage and high growth startups to hire the top 2% in Tech and GTM. We run end to end searches, from single role headhunts to full team build outs, using domain experts and a vetted network to deliver tight shortlists. We stay close to founders and candidates so the relationship lasts beyond the first hire.