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Strobe is building the world's largest power plant — not a single site, but a distributed fleet of buildings, batteries, EVs, and generators buying and selling power in real time across wholesale energy markets.

We need a senior engineer to own our data integration and cloud infrastructure layer — the connective tissue between utilities, grid operators, OEM hardware, weather services, and our optimization engine.

What you'd own:

– Wholesale market integrations (NYISO, CAISO, ERCOT) — real-time pricing, capacity markets, demand response signals

– OEM hardware integrations — API and data bridges to building equipment manufacturers for monitoring, control, and telemetry

– Green Button Connect pipelines — ingesting interval consumption, billing, and meter data from utilities (ConEd, PG&E, SCE, etc.) via OAuth2 + ESPI

– Weather and solar forecast data pipelines

– Utility bill reproduction engine — modeling site economics before and after Strobe to forecast financial impact across dozens of rate structures. This simulation infrastructure is core to how we sell and deliver value.

– Event-driven AWS infrastructure (Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync/GraphQL, EventBridge, IoT Core, TimeStream, Amplify, CloudWatch)

– Terraform IaC — real module design, remote state, multi-workspace patterns

– Observability and alerting on systems where downtime means missed market events and real dollars

Strong fit if you have:

– Deep AWS experience (IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync, EventBridge, TimeStream or similar TSDB)

– Production Terraform (modules, remote state, multi-workspace patterns)

– Extensive Python (pydantic for models, click for CLIs, boto3 for AWS, async pipelines)

– Experience integrating messy third-party APIs at scale (utilities, government, energy, OEMs)

– Comfort with on-call for systems that control physical hardware and move real money

Stack: Python / TypeScript / Rust / Terraform / AWS / GraphQL (AppSync) / MQTT / Grafana — AI-agent-optimized monorepo with deep investment in agent-enabled engineering efficiency.

Small team, high ownership, no layers. 5 days/week onsite at Newlab, Brooklyn Navy Yard.

eric@strobepower.com (mention HN) — LinkedIn or resume (PDF preferred).

We’re building a distributed, software-defined power plant: buildings, batteries, EVs, and on-site generation buying and selling power in real time. Think cloud control plane + embedded hardware + energy markets.

Small, high-performing team. No layers. You’ll own systems end-to-end: design → deploy → on-call.

We’re looking for *fungible generalists*, not narrow specialists. Strong fit if you’re comfortable with: - AWS-heavy backend work (Lambda, APIs, GraphQL, data pipelines) - Operating real-time production systems - Python / TypeScript (Rust a plus)

Depending on fit, you might work on: - Telemetry & control over unreliable networks - Embedded Linux / RTUs (Modbus, BACnet, DNP3) - Market-facing systems and optimization - Operator UIs with real-time streams (React)

Requirements: - Strong production experience - Systems mindset, bias to shipping - Willing to be onsite 5 days/week at Newlab (Brooklyn Navy Yard) - Not remote

Fast pace, direct feedback, real ownership. This is not a 9–5.

Email: eric@strobepower.com, cc keeley@strobepower.com (please mention HN)

Include your LinkedIn or resume as PDF.

  Location: DC and Seattle
  Remote: No preference
  Willing to Relocate: Yes
  Technologies: C/C++, Rust, Go, Python, JavaScript, Java... primarily worked on backend cloud infrastructure and embedded software for autonomous robots.
  Resume/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/erics
  Email: eric@spoon16.com

I'm a passionate software engineer, very effective directly supporting enterprise customers, and have successfully built and lead engineering teams from first hire to over 200 full-time engineers.

Would love to talk if you think you have established product market fit and are looking to scale.

We are looking for team mates that have strong engineering backgrounds outside of government and who have an interest in teaching Air Force service members and civilians how to build and operate multi-tenant services in a shoulder to shoulder environment. You will be implementing and operating the services as a senior software engineer.

The platform we are operating today is Pivotal Cloud Foundry so experience with Cloud Foundry or similar is a big bonus, but is not strictly required.

The project we are working on is called Kessel Run, you can Google articles or reach out to me directly (eric@f9teams.com) if you want to learn more.

The only strict requirement is that you be eligible to receive a security clearance at some point in the future. Mostly this means US Citizen with a felony free background.

I'm teaching the US Air Force how to build software.

I'm looking for team mates that have strong engineering backgrounds outside of government and who have an interest in teaching Air Force service members and civilians how to build and operate multi-tenant services in a shoulder to shoulder environment. You will be implementing and operating the services as a senior software engineer.

The platform we are operating today is Pivotal Cloud Foundry so experience with Cloud Foundry or similar is a big bonus, but is not strictly required.

The project we are working on is called Kessel Run, you can Google articles or reach out to me directly (eric@f9teams.com) if you want to learn more.

The only strict requirement is that you be eligible to receive a security clearance at some point in the future. Mostly this means US Citizen with a felony free background who would be able to pass a drug test (weed is not a problem).

I do not believe a Muslim Registry does any good for anyone. Being involved in building one would require formally changing our values which would be visible to everyone in USDS.

Disclaimer: personal opinion, I am currently serving on a USDS team, my term is up in June of '17

Re: expectations about excess work. It's your own responsibility to set expectations about what you can get done and how quickly you can get it done. I was reasonably successful at this and took lots of time off the last year I was there, m wife had our first baby. Since I was able to set reasonable expectations I got a great raise that year, despite the time that I took off.

Time Inc operates some of the most recognizable brands in the world. Time, Sports Illustrated, People, Entertainment Weekly, In Style, Southern Living, and many others. We are (finally) building out a world class engineering team to partner with our brands to extend their reach.

We've brought in strong technology leadership from the likes of Amazon, Netflix, and Microsoft.

I've got positions on the following engineering teams; DevOps (SEA, NYC, LON, BLR), Digital Asset Management (SEA, NYC, BLR), Branded Web Properties (NYC, BLR), Editorial Tools (NYC, BLR), Native/Mobile Applications (NYC, SEA).

We are looking for senior engineers and engineering managers with strong engineering fundamentals. We are just getting off the ground, so are looking for people comfortable working in environments with many rough edges.

@radeksimko is one of my team members in the UK and is doing great work on our DevOps effort. He recently became a committer on Terraform[1]. He represents the type of engineer I'm looking for.

Please reach out to me directly if you are interested in learning more. Email in profile.

[1]: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commits/master?author...

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This deck is an accurate representation of the Netflix culture. The company is big so you will have different experiences in different parts of the company, but I felt like leadership was very serious about encouraging the culture described in that deck.

That deck describes the type of culture that I am productive and happy working in.

Batch Request support has existed for some time and allowed similar result sets to be retrieved. Batch Requests are significantly more complex to construct and are not well supported by tools like Facebook's Developer Open Graph Explorer.

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