Kitu Systems is a global leader in smart energy platforms and services. Our solutions help utility companies, enterprises, and residential customers make the most of clean energy resources, including solar, battery storage and electric vehicles.
We are growing rapidly and looking to expand several teams currently working on exciting agile projects. Located in beautiful San Diego area, Kitu Systems offers the ideal environment for engineers seeking a position where their every contribution makes a difference, not only for the company or the planet, but for themselves too. Kitu Systems welcomes them with great perks and the chance to develop their skills and capabilities through development of masterful and intuitive code for challenging applications.
The ideal candidates are energetic – a must for this industry -, highly motivated, proficient at transforming concepts into solid architecture and requirements, meticulous, detail-oriented, and able to quickly come up to speed on new technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop database software for low-latency systems at scale
• Application schema design/data modeling and implementation
• Advise software development team on best practices for interfacing product with Postgres and other database technologies
• Production performance troubleshooting of queries and data ingestion
• Work with and mentor other software engineers as it relates to database engineering and development
• Collaborate closely with DevOps and Platform teams to
• design, implement, and maintain robust database deployment strategies
• ensure high availability and reliability in production environments
• Develop python software that interacts with the database

Qualifications:

• Bachelors-degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or closely related technical field
• Minimum of 8 years of database development, design, and software engineering experience
• Excellent SQL and PL/pgSQL programming skills
• Excellent knowledge of scripting and pipelines as related to database migrations and testing
• Knowledge of RDBMS internals and architecture
• Database administration experience
• Experience with data modeling in collaboration with software teams
• Self-starting and ability to work with minimal supervision
• Knowledge of software configuration management principals and tools such as git

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with AWS and associated technologies
• Experience with at scale Postgres systems (billions of operations per hour)
• Basic Linux/Unix system administration knowledge
• Experience with data warehousing
• Experience writing DRY and modular scripting/automation in Python (or other object-oriented language)
• Experience within the energy industry
• Experience developing, communicating, and enforcing standards for database structure and code
• Experience writing accessible documentation for internal and external customers (database team and non-database team)
• Comfort with balancing multiple priorities while enforcing standards and supporting urgent product team requests

• Design and develop database software for low-latency systems at scale
• Application schema design/data modeling and implementation
• Advise software development team on best practices for interfacing product with Postgres and other database technologies
• Production performance troubleshooting of queries and data ingestion
• Work with and mentor other software engineers as it relates to database engineering and development
• Collaborate closely with DevOps and Platform teams to
• design, implement, and maintain robust database deployment strategies
• ensure high availability and reliability in production environments
• Develop python software that interacts with the databas