DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer Location: Burlingame, CA Department: ESS Engineering Reports to: Senior Manager, Software Engineering Position Type: Full-time About the Company Peak Energy is the first American venture to advance globally proven sodium-ion battery systems as the storage standard for the new era of renewable energy on a resilient grid. Sodium-ion is cheap, readily available, and safe — making it the leading contender in a rapidly evolving market. Our leadership team is powered by decades of expertise in scaling gigawatt-level innovation at world-class companies such as Tesla, Northvolt, Apple, Powin, Enovix, Zipline, Solid Power, SunPower, and Fluence. We are backed by strategic investment and product partners including TDK Ventures, Eclipse Ventures, and GM Ventures. We recently announced America's first sodium-ion grid storage factory in Sacramento with production starting Q1 2027, and over $1B in signed customer commitments including Jupiter Power and Energy Vault. About the Role Peak Energy is looking for a DevOps Engineer to build and scale the cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and automation systems supporting our grid-scale battery storage technology. As Peak grows from pilot deployments to gigawatt-scale production, our software infrastructure must scale alongside our products. You'll help establish the foundation that enables our engineering teams to develop, test, and deploy software efficiently and reliably. This is a hands-on infrastructure engineering role focused on cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, database provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation. You'll build and maintain the systems that connect our development environments, manufacturing operations, and deployed battery systems to the cloud. You'll work closely with software, test, and manufacturing engineering teams to improve automation, reliability, and scalability across our software infrastructure. What You'll Do Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting Peak's battery storage software, data pipelines, and engineering applications. Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for software builds, testing, and deployment across development and production environments. Define, provision, and manage cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, establishing scalable and repeatable infrastructure practices as Peak expands its manufacturing operations and deployed battery fleet. Partner with software and test engineering teams to integrate automated testing and validation into development and deployment workflows. Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and observability. What You'll Bring (Minimum Qualifications) 4+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or a related technical role. Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform or equivalent tooling. Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools. Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS, or GCP. Experience deploying and managing cloud databases, including PostgreSQL or similar relational database systems. Proficiency in Python, Bash, or other scripting languages for infrastructure automation. Experience with cloud networking, access management, monitoring, and infrastructure security. Experience supporting softwa