Data Engineer

Description

The Position

Uplight is creating a new category of energy. We make software that manages energy resources in homes and businesses—including things like smart thermostats, electric vehicles, solar panels, storage batteries, heat pumps, and even people’s behavior—to generate, shift, or save energy to balance the grid, making it more efficient and reliable. This creates clean energy capacity that can be used by the power grid instead of burning more fossil fuels. Our solutions accelerate the transition to clean energy and save money for energy customers.

We are seeking a Data Engineer focusing on data platform enablement to support our mission and scale our impact

How You Will Make An Impact

As a Data Engineer at Uplight, you’ll play a central role in designing and maintaining the infrastructure that ingests, transforms, and delivers data across our platform. Your work ensures that data systems are reliable, scalable, observable, and cost-efficient—forming the backbone of many customer-facing and data science-driven solutions.

You’ll partner with cross-functional teams including analysts, product managers, and data scientists to ensure the platform meets the evolving needs of our business and our users.

What you get to do

• Design, build, and maintain platform components on Databricks Lakehouse, Spark, and Python that are reusable across multiple products and teams
• Develop orchestration, metadata management, lineage, and data quality frameworks that improve trust and velocity across the data ecosystem
• Build and support infrastructure for MLOps, including model registries, feature stores, and serving pipelines
• Partner with product engineers, analytics, and data science teams to provide scalable abstractions and self-service tooling
• Optimize storage, compute, and cost management strategies for big data workloads
• Drive platform automation through CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and observability practices
• Contribute to a remote-first engineering culture that values async-first communication, thoughtful design docs, and continuous improvement
  
  

What you bring to Uplight

• 2–5 years of software engineering experience, ideally in data infrastructure or platform roles
• Experience with Databricks, Spark, or similar big data platforms
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for platform and pipeline development
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CircleCI, etc.)
• Strong system design skills and ability to think about scale, reliability, and cost trade-offs
• Collaborative mindset and strong communication skills—comfortable supporting other engineering teams and building tools they love
  
  

Bonus points

• Experience with streaming data systems (Kafka, Structured Streaming)
• Knowledge of data governance, access control, and compliance practices
• Experience tuning big data workloads for performance and cost efficiency
• Prior exposure to the utility or clean energy industry
  
  

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women, marginalized genders and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Uplight we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why Join Uplight in Leading the Fight Against Climate Change?

At Uplight, We're Not Just Offering a Job – We're Offering a Chance To Be Part Of The Solution To One Of The World's Biggest Challenges. As a Certified B Corporation, We're Deeply Committed To Both Social And Environmental Responsibility. Here's Why You Should Join Our Team Of Passionate Uplighters

• Make a Meaningful Impact: Your work directly impacts our mission of decarbonization and building a more sustainable future.
• Grow Your Career: We offer ample advancement opportunities, robust learning and development programs, and a supportive team environment that fosters collaboration and innovation.
• Thrive: We offer comprehensive benefits, including flexible time off, generous parental leave, a wellness stipend, and work flexibility to help you thrive both personally and professionally.
• Belong to an Inclusive Community: We celebrate diversity and foster an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, empowered, and heard. Our Employee Resource Groups offer opportunities to connect with colleagues who share your interests and backgrounds.
• Be Part of a Growing Movement: Join a team of dedicated individuals who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future. We offer a collaborative environment where your ideas are valued and your contributions recognized. Together, we can build a brighter tomorrow.
  
  

To learn more about our comprehensive benefits package and other perks, visit uplight.com/careers

Salary Range: $90,488 to $113,000 CAD + Bonus

Application Deadline: July 19, 2025

In accordance with Canadian market data the approximate annual base compensation range is listed above. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team.

Uplight provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race (including hair texture and hairstyles), color, religion (including head coverings), age, sex, national origin, disability status (including neurodivergence), genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, neurotypicality, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.