Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

Location: United States (remote) What is Verse? Energy markets are more volatile than ever. Rapid electrification and the rise of AI are driving unprecedented demand for power, while energy costs continue to rise across the globe. For the world’s largest energy buyers, managing energy has never been more complex or more critical. Verse helps these organizations manage complex power portfolios with confidence by unifying energy data, planning, forecasting, and operations in one tool. Our Energy Cost Intelligence platform, Aria, brings together energy, finance, and operations teams with real-time, finance-ready intelligence—replacing spreadsheets and consultants with precision across the entire energy lifecycle. Built by an expert team of energy buyers, data scientists, and engineers, Verse enables faster, smarter energy decisions that reduce risk and lower energy costs. The Role You will be a member of the technical staff designing, building, and maintaining the next generation of platform and infrastructure surfaces at Verse. This role supports Core Engineering needs within the organization and builds on top of existing engineering foundations such as observability, system reliability, developer productivity, identity management and role-based access controls, authorization and authentication middleware, security, and related data and control planes. You will drive the implementation of our high availability roadmap and enhance our cloud-native service-oriented architecture. Your expertise will bolster the efficiency and scalability of workloads within our cloud environment, ensuring that our development teams can build software effectively and operate reliably. You enjoy working on data solutions (however big or small) and may collaborate closely with our data engineers. Key Responsibilities Foster a culture and mindset of system reliability engineering, test-driven software, and proactive communication with a high degree of transparency, mutual respect, and consideration for teammates Design, implement, and manage scalable, resilient infrastructure across cloud-based and third-party services on which our product engineering teams depend Troubleshoot and enhance system reliability, performance and security to meet the evolving needs of the business Build and maintain deployment automation, observability, monitoring, and alerting tools across teams Automate infrastructure provisioning and scaling to improve system efficiency and reduce manual intervention Develop, configure, and maintain various data and CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and reliable data flow and application deployments Maintain and enhance source control management and operations Build developer tools and contribute to the adoption of new technologies aimed at improving developer productivity and operational efficiency What We're Looking For (Minimum Qualifications) Hands-on experience working with identity management platforms and auth services (e.g. Clerk, Auth0, AWS Cognito, Google Identity Platform, Microsoft Entra) and designing, building, and maintaining middleware components integrated with these systems for frontend and backend developers Strong understanding of system architecture, networking, and security principles. Commitment to delivering high quality software on time or ahead of schedule while adhering to best software development practices Continuous obsession for staying informed on contemporary technologies, tools, libraries, services, frameworks, or breakthroughs that could benefit the team Discipline using generative AI tools in day-to-day work What Will Make You Standout (Preferred Qualifications) Bachelor’s degree or higher, ideally in Computer Science or some STEM related field Senior or Staff level software development talent and up Proven track record being a technical leader in high-performing core engineering teams Advanced software programming skills in systems languages (we use Go heavily) Hands-on experi ... (truncated, view full listing at source)