Staff Backend Software Engineer (AI/Energy)

Location: Mountain View, CA, with a flexible hybrid work model

US base salary: $207,000–$300,000 per year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

Tapestry is a Google group originally born at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, building an AI-powered electric grid and tools for the energy ecosystem.

What you will do

• Design and implement secure, reliable, scalable, production-level software and enterprise applications.
• Drive energy-domain technology and product development, including data ingestion, storage, and services from multiple sources.
• Build backend infrastructure that abstracts complexity and enables product teams to ship faster, safer, and more autonomously.
• Collaborate with software engineers, machine learning experts, scientists, power systems experts, product managers, and external partners.
• Refine technical requirements, rapidly prototype solutions, and evaluate feasibility.
• Drive technical strategy and large-scale architectural decisions across teams while mentoring engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience building complex, enterprise-grade software systems and applications.
• Strong algorithms, data structures, software engineering, system design, problem-solving, and ambiguity-navigation skills.
• Proficiency in at least one major backend language; Java, Kotlin, or Go preferred.
• Experience with large-scale data processing and modeling, backend services, and robust enterprise applications.
• Extensive experience with microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, gRPC, event-driven design patterns, and Cloud SQL using PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or GCP Cloud Monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform or AWS/Azure.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, scientists, domain experts, and product managers.
• Experience mentoring engineers and fostering technical excellence.

Nice to have

• Background in power systems or electric grid technologies.
• Experience building full-stack applications with frameworks such as Angular.
• Knowledge of enterprise security architecture, compliance standards, and zero-trust security models.
• Startup or early-stage company experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture focused on ownership, purposeful transformation, cross-functional collaboration, continuous learning, and grounded decision-making.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Generous PTO and flexible hybrid work.
• 401(k) with employer contribution.
• Professional development, competitive salary, equity, bonus, and work on real-world energy infrastructure problems within an Alphabet-backed environment.