In order to keep climate change to 1.5°C, we’ll need 30% of global GDP (all of energy generation and transportation) to run on batteries by 2035.

Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds predictive battery management software for transportation and energy customers with large deployments. Their customers operate >$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.

Company

In order to keep climate change to 1.5°C, we’ll need 30% of global GDP (all of energy generation and transportation) to run on batteries by 2035.

Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds predictive battery management software for transportation and energy customers with large deployments. Our customers operate >$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.

Our team brings top researchers in physics-based battery algorithms together with seasoned software engineers to build safety-critical firmware and large scale machine learning systems. We bring with us decades of experience from companies like Tesla, Facebook, and Google.

Role

Zitara has one of the most comprehensive battery performance datasets in the world, consisting of terabytes of electrical and thermal battery data from fleets of devices in the field and battery systems in our lab. Zitara builds thousands of battery models on top of these datasets, and these models enable our customers to use their batteries more safely and efficiently.

As a member of the Web / Services Team, you will help our customers monitor and analyze "fleet" data of all of their deployed batteries.

Note, this role includes on-call duty currently set at 1 week, 6 times per year.

Responsibilities

• Build Zitara’s internal API infrastructure and tooling to collect battery data to be analyzed and turned into business intelligence and web dashboards
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable solutions that manage complex, highly structured data sets with domain specific requirements
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to more junior engineers on the team

Qualifications

• Fluency in Python
• 5+ years of experience building software in large scale distributed systems
• Strong understanding of HTTP services, background workers, relational databases (PostgreSQL), and S3
• Familiarity with the full life cycle of software development, from design and implementation, to testing and deployment, to monitoring and alerting
• A love for our planet and a desire to contribute to solutions that address the climate crisis

Preferred Additional Qualifications

• Experience managing cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker
• Experience with high-traffic IoT applications, including managing rate limiting and traffic shaping
• Understanding fundamentals of cryptography, experience with cryptography in an IoT application

What We Offer

• Salary Range $160,000 to $210,000 annual base
• Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family
• 401K savings plan
• Unlimited vacation policy
• An altruistic company mission
• Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth

Our team brings top researchers in physics-based battery algorithms together with seasoned software engineers to build safety-critical firmware and large scale machine learning systems. We bring with us decades of experience from Toyota, Exponent, Proterra, Tesla, Gogoro, Google, and Facebook, and a passion for technologies that can have immediate impact on the climate crisis.