Location: United States (remote)

What is Verse?

Energy markets are more volatile than ever. Rapid electrification and the rise of AI are driving unprecedented demand for power, while energy costs continue to rise across the globe. For the world's largest energy buyers, managing energy has never been more complex or more critical.

Verse helps these organizations manage complex power portfolios with confidence by unifying energy data, planning, forecasting, and operations in one tool. Our Energy Cost Intelligence platform, Aria, brings together energy, finance, and operations teams with real-time, finance-ready intelligence—replacing spreadsheets and consultants with precision across the entire energy lifecycle. Built by an expert team of energy buyers, data scientists, and engineers, Verse enables faster, smarter energy decisions that reduce risk and lower energy costs.

The Role

You will be a member of the technical staff designing, building, and maintaining the next generation of data platform tools, pipelines, and orchestration frameworks to support multiple teams and products across a diverse range of data at Verse. This role supports Core Engineering needs within the organization and builds on top of existing engineering foundations focused on data. As a technical leader with advanced data engineering expertise, teammates will look to you to vet proposals, solutions to internal and customer-facing problems, system designs, and drive the implementation of these solutions with highest standards of software-engineering best practices. You will be an integral part of scaling our data platform as the company grows.

Key Responsibilities

Ensure data quality, contracts and integrity with best practices around access, governance, and federation throughout the data lifecycle
Implement, maintain, and promote best practices and hygiene in our dataland code repository for others to follow and emulate
Write shared libraries and reusable data tools across a variety of data flows, sources, and sinks
Partnering closely with our Data Science and data-heavy internal teams to support various analytical and AI/ML workflows
Foster a culture and mindset of well-designed systems, test-driven software, and proactive communication with a high degree of transparency, mutual respect, and consideration for teammates
Participate in code reviews, maintain technical documentation, and adhere to best software development practices

What We're Looking For (Minimum Qualifications)

Advanced software development skills in Python, Rust, Java, Scala, or similar data-oriented language ecosystems
Deep understanding of databases, data {lake,ware}house architectures, and data pipeline solutions across heterogeneous data and workloads in cloud-native environments
Proficiency in carefully handling large, complex data and processing them (streaming and batch) in both transactional and analytical settings
Commitment to delivering high quality software on time or ahead of schedule while adhering to best software development practices
Continuous obsession for staying informed on contemporary technologies, tools, libraries, services, frameworks, or breakthroughs that could benefit the team
Discipline using generative AI tools in day-to-day work

What Will Make You Standout (Preferred Qualifications)

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field
Senior level software development talent and up
Proven track record being a technical leader in high-performing data engineering teams
Intimate knowledge of scaling "big data" solutions in cloud-based environments
Hands on experience deploying and maintaining software such as Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, DBT, Dagster, Temporal, Presto/Trino, Iceberg, AlloyDB, Postgres, HBase, BigQuery, BigTable, Fabric, Hive, RedShift, S3, GCS, etc.
Experience building event-driven architectures with streaming tools such as Kafka, NATS, GCP Pub/Sub, Kinesis, Bufstream, Flink, Beam
Knowledge of managed or hosted data solutions such as Databricks, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Tinybird, etc
Practical knowledge working with data in formats like Parquet, Avro, Protobuf, time series, text, image, video
Working closely to support AI/ML-focused teams (knowledge of MLflow and Ray is a big a plus)
Comfort building internal dashboards and data-focused visualizations

What Makes Verse a Great Place to Work?

Lead with Empathy: We lift each other up with humility and kindness, always putting colleagues and customers first
Be Honest & Transparent: We prioritize effective communication to build trust with our team, customers, and stakeholders
Move with Balance & Precision: We believe speed and perseverance must be accompanied by thoughtfulness and reflection
Leave the World a Better Place: We are passionate about our mission, and we strive to create a sustainable world for future generations

Base Pay Range

$180,000 - $250,000+

This is the estimated base salary range for this position, which does not include the value of benefits or a potential equity grant. A wide range of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to level, skill sets, market conditions, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs.

Benefits and Employee Perks

Competitive compensation and equity grant at a high-growth start up
Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision insurance, and 401k
Flexible hours and unlimited PTO
Diverse and inclusive working environment

Verse is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and compensation without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital or familial status.

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