Company Overview

Driven by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid of the future, Mainspring has developed a new category of power generation — the linear generator — that delivers local, scalable, and fuel-flexible power to help accelerate the transition to the net-zero carbon grid.

The unique combination of attributes offered by Mainspring’s linear generator enables applications on both the commercial and utility sides of the meter for the $816B global electricity equipment market. We serve a wide range of Fortune 500 customers across markets and industries as well as top-tier utilities and other gridside providers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:

• Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.

• Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.

• Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.

Mainspring is based in Menlo Park and has partnered with top-tier investors and utilities such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, NextEra, and American Electric Power. More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com.

Responsibilities

Mainspring has a high-impact opportunity to lead the DevOps team responsible for ensuring that production systems are operational, CI and development systems work for the Engineering team, and new Linear Generators can be deployed successfully and efficiently. The manager will need to have domain expertise in DevOps, Build Systems, and Site Reliability Engineering, in addition to a passion for leading and growing a high-performance team.

This is a management role within the Software team. As a leader in the organization, you will:

• Build, maintain, and lead a team of Build, DevOps, and Site Reliability engineers that produce excellent work products and are a joy to work with

• Drive and implement reliable, efficient, secure, and scalable solutions for improving and maintaining product infrastructure in GCP and AWS as well as the computer network within the Linear Generator.

• Maintain a secure platform (both from intrusion and IP loss)

• Work with project delivery teams to define and implement site-specific network configurations

• Deliberately manage technical debt and balance its future cost against the value of new capabilities

• Help the team choose tools to increase productivity

• Create project roadmaps and allocate resources

• Lead team activities such as planning, retrospectives, code reviews, daily stand ups, etc.

• Critically, you should enjoy doing these things collaboratively as part of a tightly coupled and highly interactive team

Qualifications

• Proven success leading teams using IaC tools such as Terraform and Ansible, operating in a cloud environment such as GCP or AWS

• Passion for and success in hiring and managing teams of engineers

• Able to be an effective/respected individual to perform hands-on tasks when required

• BS in computer science or other related engineering field

The Bay Area salary for this role is $180k-$220k base + pre-IPO stock options + benefits. This position is on-site in Menlo Park, CA. The salary will be adjusted based on the experience of the employee.

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.