Hiring: Staff Data Engineer Company: Form Energy Location: Somerville, MA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 14:22:53 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Airflow, ClickHouse, Dagster, Data Pipeline, Databricks, Delta Lake, Druid, Iceberg, InfluxDB, Java, Kafka, Kinesis, Prefect, Pulumi, PySpark, Python, R, REST, Scala, Snowflake, Spark, Terraform, TimescaleDB, Webhooks, dbt About the job Experience: •7+ years of data or software engineering experience, including building and operating production data pipelines where reliability is operationally critical. Required Skills: •Design, build, and operate the streaming and batch pipelines that turn real-time telemetry from deployed energy-storage systems into reliable, well-modeled, query-ready datasets, spanning ingestion, transformation, storage in open table formats, and serving to downstream consumers. •Take a lead role across the operational-telemetry data products, building on and extending the core streaming platform rather than reinventing it. •Independently lead the design of novel data solutions, producing technical design docs and RFCs and driving them to alignment across the data, applications, and field-facing stakeholders they touch. •Model and serve time-series and event data for downstream analytics, monitoring, and applications, using open table formats (Iceberg / Delta Lake) and time-series stores. •Build and maintain data orchestration (Dagster, Prefect, or Airflow) for workflows that are reliable, observable, and testable. •Stand up and manage the AWS infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi and/or Terraform) your pipelines run on. •Partner with field operations, hardware/controls engineers, and analytics/application consumers to translate operational needs into trustworthy, well-documented data. •Share in an on-call rotation to keep ops-critical data flowing. Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in computer science, applied mathematics, software engineering, data engineering or computer engineering plus 7+ years of data or software engineering experience, including building and operating production data pipelines where reliability is operationally critical. •Strong production programming in Python, Scala, Java, or Go. •Applied hands-on capability in data transformation tools such as Apache Spark (PySpark and/or Scala) and dbt. •AWS experience, plus infrastructure-as-code with Pulumi and/or Terraform. •A track record of independently leading the design of novel solutions, including preparing technical design docs and/or RFCs. •Excellent communication and organizational skills, and comfort participating in an on-call rotation. •Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here. Compensation: •$147,959 - $203,470 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!