Senior Software Engineer

We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world.Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation.

From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.

Generac Clean Energy is dedicated to delivering revolutionary Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for our residential customers to improve energy reliability and grid independence.

Our software and firmware teams enable these systems to provide a seamless battery backup system for our customers.Our software stack is built on top of Golang, Rust, Java, MQTT, Go, and other related technologies, with a sophisticated and fault-tolerant architecture that collects real-time data from devices and enables remote configuration and control of the battery systems.

We’re looking for an engineer to help us in our development of highly secure, scalable, performant, and robust software and software frameworks for infrastructure, platform engineering, and product and development tooling.

These systems and software are responsible for enabling our engineers with productive, efficient, world class environments which implement industry best practices in security posture that will ensure we sell products of the highest quality to our customers while maximizing the velocity, creativity, and ease of development for our developers.

Your software will be vital to the health of the business as it will accelerate product development and ensure the safety and security of our customer’s data, allowing us to bring to market top quality software for products at every stage of their lifecycle.

In addition, you will be expected to measurably contribute to and help enforce and take ownership of the adoption of standardized security posture initiatives throughout the organization.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities : Drive end-to-end software and infrastructure security from design through deployment and post-deployment improvements.

Help build and maintain a highly scalable platform engineering framework to enable software development of current and next generation Clean Energy software solutions.

Innovate product tooling by collaborating with electrical, software, and firmware engineers.Implement infrastructure for the ease of system validation and maintenance.

Be an integral part of a team of software engineers, challenging ideas and decisions with reasoning from first principles.

Collaborate and integrate with hardware, software, and firmware teams to develop efficient systems. Provide feedback to improve product quality and functionality.

Participate hands-on in software and system debugging. Drive improvements to meet accuracy, cycle time, and other performance factors.

Minimal Qualifications : BS or MS in Computer / Electrical / Mechanical Engineering.5+ years of experience in designing and building scalable software in distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications : Demonstrated experience working with security platforms andDemonstrated excellence using system-level languages (such as Golang, Rust, C, C++, etc.

to design products and automated systems.Excellent software fundamentals including application design, algorithm development, data structures, code modularity, and maintainability.

Demonstrated excellence in using concurrency, asynchronous programming, and distributed systems to achieve strict cycle-time requirements and maximize throughput.

Knowledge and Skills : Experience with both relative and non-relative database systems.Experience working with Linux OS.Experience working with electrical hardware and microcontrollers / processors.

Be engaged, proactive, and positive when taking on challenging tasks, owning assignments, and taking accountability for personal and overall team success.

Physical demands : While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls.

The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders.

The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting;

close vision and ability to adjust focus. Up to 10% Travel.We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Physical Demands : While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls.

The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders.

The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus.

Occasional travel. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Our success is directly tied to our employees’ professional growth and personal well-being, combined with strong families and communities.

As an inclusive workplace, our employees embrace diversity, celebrate differences, and treat others with equality and respect.

Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.

As one of the leaders and largest suppliers of power generation equipment and technology, the work we do touches millions of lives.

Employees at Generac are encouraged to be innovative and are valued as an integral part of our global team. Our challenging goals develop knowledgeable employees dedicated to helping continue Generac’s success.

Generac provides individuals the opportunity to work in a fast-paced agile work environment where their work makes a difference in people’s lives and their own.