Infrastructure Engineer

About Byterat

Byterat is the modern data platform for battery science. We give battery teams at companies like Panasonic or Tesla the core data platform they need to innovate, securely at scale.

We’re a well-funded, VC-backed start-up with customers and recurring revenue. We’re backed by world-class investors like Y Combinator, Giant Ventures and Collaborative Fund, and angels such as founders of Zendesk and Voi, and executives from Google, Meta and Figma. 

We’re growing rapidly, which presents career-defining opportunities for ambitious engineers to accelerate their growth and contribute to a quickly evolving startup in SF. You’ll be joining our in-person team of engineers and physicists with backgrounds from Rivian, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Shopify, U. Cambridge and other YC start-ups.

Our Mission

• Batteries play a key role in tackling climate change. $73B was invested in US battery plants in 2022, and battery company revenue is expected to grow >5x over the next decade.
• Global carmakers alone are forecast to spend $515B on electric vehicle and battery R&D by 2030. But battery engineers are woefully underserved by software, relying on broken legacy products to analyze their data. Most data is never analyzed or used meaningfully.
• Byterat is the first platform to provide battery teams with the infrastructure they need to unlock business value from their battery data. Byterat is live in battery labs across three continents today, allowing teams to analyze data from thousands of parallel experiments and unlock previously hidden insights connecting battery design to performance.

We might be a fit for you if…

• You have 3+ years of software engineering experience in an infrastructure position.
• You are proficient in managing and scaling AWS infrastructure, and have experience taking full ownership for a Kubernetes system.
• You have a degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• You have experience building and productionizing developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineering.
• You’re hard-working. You’re a team player. You can communicate effectively and respectfully. You pay attention to details. You like to solve the most important problems and you’re good at doing that. You adapt quickly.
• You’re ambitious and you want to move fast. You want to accelerate your trajectory and have an outsized impact on a rapidly growing VC-backed startup.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment where you’re given a lot of autonomy.
• You write high-quality, clean and maintainable code quickly.
• You want to join a strong, supportive, high-performance team. You set an exceptionally high performance bar for yourself and everyone on the team.
• You are not afraid to communicate what is working and what needs to improve.

The role

• Manage our AWS and Elasticsearch cloud infrastructure through code and automated systems, including Kubernetes.
• Build, test and ship software to manage, operate and improve our high-throughput web application and data pipelines and associated cloud infrastructure.
• Build the operational framework for the monitoring, deployment, and maintenance of our web services and data pipelines.
• Architect, build, test, and ship highly-available and secure services that process and serve data at scale. 
• Work closely with our product team to create the best system architecture for delivering key features that drive value for customers.

Our tech stack

• Postgres database with data indexing using ElasticSearch
• Modern python based ETL with a node.js / next.js GraphQL layer 
• React TypeScript front-end
• Hosted in AWS with Kubernetes