Strobe Power
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Principal Engineer

$220K–$280K + equity
Brooklyn, NY
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
On-site

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

Own the reliability and performance of the entire system end-to-end, and lead the integration of new capacity into the fleet.

What you'd own

Own the reliability and performance of the whole system end-to-end — edge controllers, controls, cloud platform, and market-facing trading

Lead the integration of new capacity — buildings, batteries, EVs, generators — into the fleet

Work hands-on with engineers across hardware, controls, platform, fullstack, and trading to ship and operate it

Partner with the business to keep a reliable, performant power plant as the fleet scales by orders of magnitude

Own production on-call and incident response for systems that control physical hardware and move real money

Strong fit if you have

A deep staff/principal track record; you still read and write code every day

Owned the reliability and performance of a complex production system end to end — distributed cloud services plus the physical or real-time edge

Set technical standards others adopt, without needing a title or process to do it

Sound judgment under ambiguity, with energy markets, hardware, and regulation all moving at once

Bias toward shipping, with the rigor to keep safety-critical systems trustworthy

Stack: Python / TypeScript / Rust / Terraform / AWS / GraphQL (AppSync) / DNP3 / MQTT / Grafana. AI-agent-native monorepo with deep investment in agent-enabled engineering efficiency.

Founding-level technical leadership. High ownership, no layers.