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# Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Cloud & Real Time Infrastructure at Antora Energy

- **Company:** Antora Energy
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/antora/jobs/6145671004

## Job description

Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Our thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power, without supply-constrained critical minerals or multi-year construction timelines.

We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and work with humility and openness. We are committed to building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.

## About The Role

Antora Energy is seeking an engineer to own the real-time cloud infrastructure connecting our software systems to physical hardware.

Every five minutes, our software determines how our thermal batteries should charge and discharge. Those decisions must travel reliably through our messaging infrastructure and reach physical assets in the field. In the other direction, plant telemetry flows from the edge into our cloud data warehouse, where it must be complete, timely, and trustworthy enough to support operational decisions and financial trading.

You’ll also own the corporate cloud platform that the rest of the company builds on. While these systems have very different service-level requirements, they share a need for thoughtful architecture, strong operational practices, and reliable tooling.

We’re hiring one person for a scope that many companies divide across multiple teams. This is a high-impact opportunity to establish platform-wide standards, unify observability, and shape our infrastructure and operational strategy from end to end.

## What You'll Do

Own the Real-Time Telemetry and Dispatch Path

Own the full data path from the edge, through streaming ingestion, into the warehouse, and back out to asset dispatch.

You’ll define service-level objectives, build freshness and gap detection, and ensure silent data loss becomes an actionable alert—not something discovered in a report a week later.

Manage Our AWS Infrastructure as Code

Own and evolve our AWS footprint across multiple accounts using Terraform.

You’ll operate containerized services on ECS and Lambda and manage orchestration, networking, secrets, access controls, and supporting infrastructure. You’ll design systems with failure modes, blast radius, observability, capacity, and recovery in mind from the beginning.

Advance an AI-First Software Development Lifecycle

Our engineers already work alongside AI coding agents. The constraint is no longer how quickly code can be written—it is how quickly that code can be verified and deployed safely.

You’ll build the systems that make agent-authored changes safe at scale, including fast and trustworthy CI, hermetic test infrastructure, preview environments, progressive delivery, and automated guardrails.

You’ll also establish the cost controls and verification workflows that allow autonomous development systems to operate without requiring a person to supervise every step.

Own Reliability for Systems Connected to Physical Assets

Participate in the on-call rotation for systems that dispatch instructions to a physical plant.

You’ll build the observability, alerting, and response processes needed to identify problems before they affect field operations. You’ll also define clear escalation paths across cloud infrastructure, site controls, and our market operations desk.

Build a Platform Engineers Want to Use

Treat infrastructure as an internal product. Create self-service tools, paved paths, and platform capabilities that help engineers ship safely without unnecessary friction.

You’ll set standards where consistency matters while avoiding process for process’s sake.

## What We're Looking For

- Deep production infrastructure experience. You have several years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure at scale, with strong expertise in AWS, Terraform, containers, and CI/CD.
- Hands-on site reliability experience. You have carried primary on-call responsibility for a production system that mattered. You have also planned and completed at least one zero-downtime migration involving a stateful, always-on service.
- Experience with real-time or physical systems. You have worked in industrial technology, energy, robotics, automotive, or another environment where software failures have tangible operational consequences.
- An internal-product mindset. You have built self-service tooling that engineers chose to adopt—not simply tooling they were required to use. You understand how to balance standardization, usability, and developer autonomy.
- Strong programming skills. You have strong coding skills in Python, Go, or both. You do more than provision infrastructure: you write and operate the software that keeps systems reliable.
- Practical experience with AI development tools. You use AI coding tools regularly and have a thoughtful perspective on where they work well, where they fail, and how their output should be reviewed and verified.
- Sound operational judgment. You can distinguish between a safeguard that prevents a meaningful failure and a process that only creates friction. You design controls proportionate to the risks involved.
- A willingness to learn across the stack. Deep experience with industrial protocols is valuable but not required. A strong systems engineer who is excited to learn the plant and operational technology side of the business can thrive in this role.

Bonus Qualifications

- Experience with industrial and operational technology protocols, including MQTT or Sparkplug B
- Familiarity with platforms such as HiveMQ, NATS, Ignition, or industrial historians
- Experience operating across strict OT/IT boundaries
- Experience with air-gapped or intermittently connected environments
- Expertise in time-series or high-cardinality data at scale
- Experience with ClickHouse, Dagster, or streaming ingestion systems
- Experience building developer tooling specifically for AI coding agents
- Familiarity with sandboxing, AI cost governance, or agent-readable test output
- Experience with energy markets, dispatch systems, or grid-connected assets

Work Location: Remote / US based

Salary Range: $183-240k USD

Salary Basis:

Please note that the salary range listed above reflects Antora Energy's estimated pay for this position. The actual salary offered will be within the posted range and determined based on several factors including but not limited to a candidate's experiences, credentials and expertise, as they pertain to the position's requirements.

In addition to a competitive base salary, Antora Energy’s Total Rewards program includes equity compensation in the form of stock options, a premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance, a 401K plan with employer contributions, flexible spending accounts, and an industry leading paid-time-off policy that features flexible and inclusive holiday observance, as well as paid volunteer time off. https://diversityjobs.com/employer/top-diversity-employers?utm_campaign=TopEmployer&utm_medium=badge  When it comes to stopping climate change, we need everyone. We believe that having a diversity of backgrounds and experiences strengthens all of us, and we strive to create an environment where every one of us is empowered to create meaningful change.

## About Antora Energy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Antora Energy manufactures and deploys modular thermal batteries that convert low-cost, intermittent clean electricity into reliable, always-on heat and power for global industrial facilities and data centers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Justin Briggs, Andrew Ponec, David Bierman

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Renewable Energy Power Generation, Thermal Energy Storage, Industrial Decarbonization
- **Target customers**: Large-scale industrial energy users (biofuels, refining, pulp & paper, steel & iron, chemicals, mining, concrete & lime, food & beverage) and data center operators (B2B, Enterprise).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We are here to power global industry with clean energy.” The company aims to make cheap, clean energy the standard that powers global industry.

## Products & Services
- **Thermal Battery System**: A modular, factory-built energy storage system that uses solid carbon (one of the safest, most stable materials on earth) to store surplus clean electricity as heat. It delivers always-on heat and power for industrial operations, scales from megawatts to gigawatts, and is designed for low cost, rapid deployment, and massive scale.
- **Project Big Stone**: One of the largest battery storage systems in the world, deployed in under 12 months for POET, the world’s largest biofuels producer. It delivers affordable, reliable energy and serves as a proof-of-concept for the company’s giga-scale deployment model.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$220.0M** across 10 rounds, including a $150M Series B led by Decarbonization Partners (Feb 2024). Annual revenue estimated at **$7.7M**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Decarbonization Partners, National Science Foundation, California Energy Commission. Key partner: POET (biofuels).
- **Growth Signals**: 197 employees (+36.6% YoY), 31,700 LinkedIn followers (+42.9% YoY), active job postings up 140% YoY. The company is building gigawatt-hours of thermal batteries annually at its U.S. factory and has a presence in Spain.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Technology**: Uses solid carbon thermal storage—a simple, safe, and low-cost material—to provide both heat and power, differentiating from chemical battery or molten salt solutions.
- **Modular & Factory-Built**: Modules are manufactured in a U.S. factory, enabling rapid deployment, seamless integration, and operational redundancy at any scale.
- **Speed to Market**: Project Big Stone advanced from an empty lot to energy delivery in under 12 months, demonstrating a fast deployment model that can be replicated globally.
- **Multi-day Storage**: Provides reliable energy for industrial operations where downtime is not an option, solving the intermittency problem of renewables.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale and Replicate**: Replicating the Project Big Stone model at factories and data centers across the U.S. and globally.
- **Giga-scale Manufacturing**: Expanding factory capacity to produce gigawatt-hours of thermal batteries each year, with a focus on American manufacturing.
- **Market Expansion**: Targeting hard-to-abate industrial sectors (steel, cement, chemicals) and data centers, while expanding internationally (e.g., Spain).
- **Cost Leadership**: Driving down costs to make cheap, clean energy the standard for global industry.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: The company’s north star is to power global industry with clean energy, offering employees a chance to work on one of the most urgent climate challenges.
- **Culture**: Values include “Build with Humility & Openness,” “Team & Mission First,” and “Joy & Laughter Connect Us.” The company emphasizes kindness, collaboration, and learning from setbacks.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with “Home Week” each quarter to bring in-person and remote team members together. Offices in San Jose, CA; Big Stone City, SD; and remote roles in the U.S.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, stock options, 401k match, 16 weeks paid parental leave, comprehensive medical/vision/dental, HSA with employer contribution, subsidized backup childcare/senior care/petcare, mental health support, on-site gym, healthy snacks, and volunteer time off.
- **Engineering & Impact**: Teams work on cutting-edge thermal storage, manufacturing, and field engineering. The company is growing fast (36% headcount growth) and offers the chance to shape a new industry.

## Sources
1. [antora.com](https://www.antora.com/)
2. [antora.com/company](https://www.antora.com/company)
3. [antora.com/careers](https://www.antora.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/antora-energy](https://www.linkedin.com/company/antora-energy)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/antora-energy](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/antora-energy)

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