Market Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

You will own the infrastructure that lets Base's Markets team turn a fleet of home batteries into a single, profitable grid asset. As a Market Infrastructure Engineer at Base, you will design, build, and operate the platform that runs our production trading algorithms, commands the fleet in real time, and connects Base to wholesale energy markets. This is the layer between the people who decide when and how to trade and the thousands of batteries that actually move power. When the market moves, your systems are what make sure the right decision reaches the right device in time. This is a high-leverage role. The Markets team is small and its decisions move real money on a continuous basis, so the reliability, latency, and observability of the platform you build directly shape how much value the fleet creates. You will work across the algorithms, market operations, backend, and hardware teams to remove bottlenecks, simplify the systems that sit between a trading decision and a battery, and raise the bar for how safely Base participates in live markets.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the production stack that runs Base's trading algorithms and submits bids and offers into the market.
• Build and own the integrations with ERCOT, the operator that runs Texas's wholesale electricity market, and other grid operators we expand into, covering bidding, telemetry, dispatch, and settlement.
• Build the real-time path between a trading decision and the fleet, so that when an algorithm decides to charge or discharge, that instruction reaches thousands of batteries reliably and on time.
• Build and maintain the market and telemetry data pipelines, plus the observability into trading performance and fleet response, that the team relies on to see what the system is doing.
• Build and improve the simulation and backtesting environment where algorithms are validated before they go live.
• Own how new algorithms ship to production, including the deployment tooling, guardrails, and rollback paths that let the team move quickly without putting real positions at risk.

Requirements

• Strong experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering on a modern cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience working on complex, failure-prone, or latency-sensitive systems, with clear opinions on why they broke down and how to design them better.
• Strong programming skills in languages used for backend services and tooling (e.g., Go, Python), and a solid grasp of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and containerized workloads.
• Experience operating infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) and designing CI/CD systems and software delivery workflows.
• Strong communication and comfort taking broad, evolving ownership in a fast-moving environment, collaborating across algorithms, operations, backend, and hardware teams.
• Bonus: experience with energy markets, real-time control systems, time-series data at scale, workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal), or production trading systems.
• About this Team
• Please note: Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly. Your role may expand or change based on the needs of the business at any given time, so the responsibilities listed may not be exhaustive.
• Our Values
• First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.
• Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.
• Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, and maintain a growth mindset.
• Everyone's an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results.
• Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information.
• Committed to the Mis

Benefits

Additional Information

About Base Base is America's next-generation power company. We're rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization-electricity-by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today's fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.

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