Careers

Help us build the data layer of the energy transition.

We're a small, successful, technically-led team building the time-series infrastructure underneath the modern grid and the rest of the physical world. We work fully remote and trust our employees to do their best work without an office around them. We're almost always hiring for the categories below. If you're great, get in touch.

Why PingThings

A small team, critical sectors, real impact.

Instead of trying to get people to click one more ad, we're making the grid more resilient and reliable and understanding the physical industries foundational to our species.

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Save the planet.

We work with some of the largest utilities in North America to make the most immediate, significant, and measurable impact on grid carbon intensity that we can. The grid is the leverage point of the entire energy transition.

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Fully remote, flexible.

We are a fully remote company whose CEO has been geographically agnostic for over 15 years. We will not be returning to office because there never was an office. We trust our employees to get their work done while enjoying the independence and flexibility of working from home.

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Strong benefits, real support.

Robust benefits, covering up to 100% of health insurance costs for certain plans. Retirement plan, dental, vision, and life insurance. We help our employees cover home office expenses. We do our best to take care of the team.

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Solve problems others haven't dared.

Come work on a time-series data platform engineered for extreme performance and scale. We aren't just ingesting and storing sensor data; we're making it usable to people who couldn't access it before. The problems are unsolved because they're hard.

A startup that's far more steak than sizzle.

We were profitable before our Series A and have grown deliberately. Our management is primarily technical. We've won grants from the Department of Energy, ARPA-E, EPRI, and the National Science Foundation. If you've ever wanted to join a serious technical company in a critical sector, here it is.

From the team

What people actually say.

We asked current and former employees one question: "If you had to pick one thing about working at PingThings that you really like, what would it be?" These are their unedited answers.

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I really like the people I’m working with. It’s pretty interdisciplinary which leads to lots of great ideas and different approaches to problems. There are other things I like here as well like the types of problems I get to work on and solve, but I think the one that is quite consistent for me is the people.
Justin
Justin
Data Scientist and Data Engineer
The type of work I am doing — I am getting to use the skills I have gained over almost 20 years, and still I am getting to learn so many new things. I feel productive and impactful at the end of the day. Getting to work with people who are not only super smart but also very humble and kind is rare.
Prateek
Prateek
Operations
I like the tech stack — Go, Kubernetes, and some Python. It is quite pleasant to work with compared to a lot of other things I have dealt with. And PingThings has quite a clear value proposition for a bunch of cases. It is relatively easy for me to explain what I work on to non-technical people and why it’s useful.
Andrew
Senior System Architect
The diversity and depth of the challenges we are working with. And the very bright people we get to work with. But that’s two things, not one.
Anne-Marie
Anne-Marie
Data Visualization Engineer

Are you the kind of person
who would thrive here?

This is not for everyone. The way you work and the way you think about working with others both matter. We look for both.

// How you work

You do not need babysitting.

You are self-directed, intrinsically motivated, and you finish what matters.

// How you think

You care more about getting to the right answer than getting credit for being right.

You separate ideas from ego, welcome challenge, and improve fast.

// How you play

You use your powers for good: grow the pie, not your slice of it.

Team first. Zero politics. Shared wins.

// How you show up

You want to work with sharp people, and you welcome the standard that comes with that.

Professional, dependable, curious, and eager to improve.

// How you build

You are a builder who can thrive with focus, freedom, and responsibility.

Happy working remote, excited to create, and ready to deliver.

// How we hire

We are a true meritocracy. We want the best humans possible on this team.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, or genetic information.

Open categories

What we're almost always hiring for.

We don't post specific job openings. We hire when great people show up. Below are the categories we're consistently looking for. If your experience fits any of them, please reach out.

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Go

Go Developer / Distributed Systems Software Engineer

Remote
The core components of our platform (the ingest layer, the database, the APIs, and the analytical systems) are written in Go. We hire Go developers at all experience levels, including right out of school. We tend toward candidates with systems-level experience and strong computer science backgrounds, often with robust data structures, architecture, and algorithms expertise. Knowledge of Python is a plus.
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K8s

DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer

Remote
We operate a complex time-series data platform composed of many components, all containerized and orchestrated via Kubernetes. This role focuses on maintaining our existing cloud and on-prem clusters, as well as building automation tools to spin up new clusters and deploy our software more quickly.
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Python

Data Scientist / Data Engineer

Remote
You are likely an expert in Python and have a power engineering, physical sciences, or engineering background, with strong familiarity with time-series data and signal processing. You’ll be working closely with utility partners and our internal team to operationalize advanced analytics on real grid data.
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JS

Front-End / Data Visualization Engineer

Remote
You’ll work with real-time data streams, engineer for performance across browsers, and delight people by building the best software we can imagine. You’ll collaborate closely with stakeholders to spec, build, test, and deploy new features. You’ll implement performant JavaScript to create new application features and data visualizations, and learn about new web technologies along the way.
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Don't see your role? If you have something exceptional to offer that doesn't fit cleanly into the categories above, write to us at jobs@pingthings.io anyway. We hire when great people show up.
Compensation

How we pay people.

Employee compensation comes in three forms.

Base salary

Competitive with most of tech, calibrated to capabilities, experience, and location.

Equity

All employees receive stock options that vest linearly over four years with a one-year cliff.

Benefits

Robust package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and a retirement plan. We cover up to 100% of health insurance costs for certain plans.

We do not currently pay annual bonuses. We have been known to top off employee options after a fundraising round, or simply because someone has done a fantastic job.
— How we hire

The interview process.

We do not run a hiring gauntlet.
We run a working conversation.

The goal is to determine whether you and PingThings are a good fit: efficiently, transparently, and respectfully of both sides' time. If you are genuinely excited about the mission and the work, we want to talk. If you are window-shopping, this probably is not the right place to spend your time.

01 / Introductory call
5–60 min Video CTO, CRO, or CEO
Real mutual fit.

This is not a recruiter screen. You will usually speak with an officer of the company. We want to understand who you are, what drives you, what kind of work you do best, and whether PingThings is a place where you could do exceptional work.

A short call is not necessarily bad. If we are certain we are not moving forward, we will tell you during the call.

02 / Collaborative interview
60–120 min Working session Video
Real work, not whiteboard theater.

This is the heart of the process. You will work alongside one or more PingThings employees on a real problem that resembles actual work here. We want to see how you think, communicate, reason through ambiguity, and collaborate under realistic conditions. Some preparation may be required. Memorizing interview puzzles will not help.

  • No trivia.
  • No hazing.
  • No performative whiteboarding.
  • Real work, with real collaborators.
03 / CEO call
30–60 min Video CEO
Final check. Honest feedback both ways.

The final step is a conversation with the CEO. This is your chance to ask almost anything about the company, our history, or anything else on your mind. Transparency is one of our core pillars. Come prepared.

We will also talk about compensation. We treat that as a collaboration, not a negotiation. We want to offer pay that is healthy for you and sustainable for the company. We do not consider this a zero sum game. It is one of the first real moments of building a long-term relationship.

We will also ask for direct, honest feedback on what worked and what didn't in the interview process.

Ready to get in touch?

Send a note to the address below with whatever feels right: your background, what you're working on, why PingThings caught your attention. We read every email.

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