Senior Database Engineer, Monitoring

Company: SunPower Corporation
Location: Austin
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Press Tab to Move to Skip to Content Link Do you want to change the world? We do, too.
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The energy market is roughly $4 trillion globally, and solar penetration is less than 1%. But just one hour of sunlight, if harnessed, could power the entire world for a year. We have the opportunity to completely change the way energy is produced, distributed and consumed on a global scale, and we're looking for talented, committed people to help us drive our growth and achieve our goals.
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SunPower is a global solar energy solutions company with a rich heritage of pioneering the best energy technologies in the world. Our solutions are unrivaled in terms of long-term reliability, efficiency and guaranteed performance, and our company is unmatched in terms of global reach and scale. Through design, manufacturing, installation and ongoing maintenance and monitoring, SunPower provides its proprietary, world-record efficient solar technology to residential, commercial and utility customers worldwide.
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SunPower is changing the way our world is powered every day with a brilliant, passionate and driven team of more than 2,000 in North America and the Philippines. In an industry that is reshaping the world's energy future, there's no better place to be than SunPower.
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We believe that our employees create our brand - with each project, each communication, each task completed and each interaction. Experience is critical to SunPower in regards to not only our customers but also our employees and dealer partners. As such, we strive to hire candidates that are service focused. The experience we would expect the ideal person to deliver is:
- JOB -DESCRIPTION SunPower is looking for a Senior Database Engineer to contribute to building its monitoring and data platform. This role will directly report to the principal engineer. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following (other duties may be assigned):

• Responsible for the development of Monitoring software to enable a world-class residential and commercial solar PV and storage data platform.
• Design and architect services and components to source, process, and sink time-series, event-based, and relational data across the entirety of SunPower's Monitoring and data platform.
• Functionally contribute to a team of software and data engineers.
• Partner with the product management team and peers to define the application roadmap to ensure a scalable and effective residential application infrastructure.
• Work with product owners to ensure that relevant information systems serve the business needs effectively. RELATED EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
  • Bachelor's degree and 5-7 years of relevant experience
  • Experience with Postgres and DynamoDb
  • Development experience in a cloud environment such as AWS or GCP Preferred requirements
    • Experience processing time-series and metadata with Kafka
    • Familiarity with AWS serverless application components Equal Employment Opportunity
      The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer and makes employment decisions, including but not limited to, hiring, firing, promotion, demotion, training, and/or compensation, on the basis of merit. Employment decisions are based on an individual's qualifications as they relate to the job under consideration. The Company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions, the actual sex of the individual, or the gender identity or gender expression), race, color, religion, including religious dress practices and religious grooming practices, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, familial status, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected veteran or military status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws, ordinances, or regulations. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the Company and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company, including supervisors and co-workers. EOE Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled
      
      SunPower Supports EEO
      
      Accommodation for Applicants to SunPower Corporation
      SunPower Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system and you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, you may use the following alternative email address to contact us about your interest in employment at SunPower Corporation: jobs@sunpower.com. Please indicate in the subject that line of your email that you are requesting accommodation. Only candidates being considered for a position who require an accommodation will receive a follow-up response. NOTICE TO ALL APPLICANTS AND EMPLOYEES Availability of Affirmative Action Plan for Review SunPower is a federal government contractor. As a part of the Company's obligations under law, it must develop a written Affirmative Action Program (AAP) for the Disabled, Recently Separated Veterans, Armed Forces Service Medal Veterans, Disabled Veterans and Active Duty Wartime Or Campaign Badge Veterans and for Women and Minorities as specified by law. Non-confidential and non-proprietary aspects of the AAP are available for inspection by applicants -and employees, consistent with applicable law, which will be made available during office hours by contacting the EEO Officer.

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