Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer$220K–$280K + equity Brooklyn, NY San Francisco, CA Full-time On-siteStrobe is building the world's largest power plant: not a single site, but a distributed fleet of buildings, batteries, EVs, and generators that buy and sell power in real time across wholesale energy markets.Own the whole stack across cloud, edge, controls, and markets: set the architecture and raise the engineering bar.What you'd ownSet technical direction across the entire system, from edge control software to cloud pipelines and market integrationsMake the hard build-vs-buy, reliability, and scaling calls as the fleet grows by orders of magnitudeSet the engineering bar through architecture, code review, and the patterns the rest of the team builds onProduction reliability and on-call for systems that control physical hardware and move real moneyBridge engineering and the market, ops, and hardware sides of the businessStrong fit if you haveA deep staff/principal track record; you still read and write code every dayOwned a complex production system end to end: distributed cloud services plus the physical or real-time edgeSet technical standards others adopt, without needing a title or process to do itSound judgment under ambiguity, with energy markets, hardware, and regulation all moving at onceBias toward shipping, with the rigor to keep safety-critical systems trustworthyStack: Python / TypeScript / Rust / Terraform / AWS / GraphQL (AppSync) / DNP3 / MQTT / Grafana. AI-agent-optimized monorepo with deep investment in agent-enabled engineering efficiency.Founding-level technical leadership. High ownership, no layers.