Staff Platform Engineer

Salary: £70k - £100k + equity

Location: Hybrid (London)

The world is facing a nature crisis. We have lost 85% of the world’s wetlands, 35% of its forests and 65% of its living creatures. Action on nature is the next frontier for sustainability, as the world has to move beyond net zero to nature positive future. Natcap is on a mission to accelerate the nature-positive transition by integrating nature intelligence into business decision-making. We support the world's leading companies to prioritise, measure and act on nature impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities.

We’re seeking an exceptional Platform Engineer to bring depth, experience and momentum to our engineering team. We’re a scaling company with a small (<10), highly hands-on engineering team - everyone builds, ships, and owns outcomes. We’re looking for an experienced doer: someone with deep infrastructure, software- and data-engineering tooling expertise who takes pride in delivering, completing, and improving systems in a practical, hands-on way. There’s real scope for impact, whether you’re ambitious and eager to shape our infrastructure as we scale, or a seasoned engineer ready to apply your experience to mature and strengthen our stack and operations.

You will work alongside colleagues in Product, Design, Delivery, Science, and Engineering to develop a top-tier product that is easy to use, performs well, and maintains high security. Your role will involve comprehensive engagement across our product and data platform. You will quickly gain expertise in our domain - ecology & biodiversity, nature regulation, and reporting frameworks - and communicate effectively with other teams.

This role offers a unique opportunity to apply your technical skills to combat the nature crisis in a highly impactful position that will shape the nature platform we are building at Natcap.

What you’ll do in this role:

You will support our software engineering team (smart, proactive, experienced and established yet always keen to learn) by working alongside them. The projects may be infrastructure driven (e.g. private networking, cost optimisation, scalability adjustments) or software-delivery driven (CI/CD, automation of data processing, communication between different stack elements to achieve desired functionality).

The following skills and knowledge will come useful every week:

• The design, implementation, and management of secure, resilient, and scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Building and managing solutions on the AWS cloud platform, with knowledge of Google Cloud being advantageous.
• Developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration Management (CM) using tools such as Terraform and Ansible to enhance infrastructure deployments and security configurations.
• Applying security best practices and compliance benchmarks to cloud infrastructure with IaC and CM tools, using AWS security services to standardise and improve the security posture of our cloud infrastructure.
• Integrating the testing, deployment and management of IaC and CM with CI/CD pipelines, using tools such as GitHub Actions.
• Configuring and managing deployments of applications on container platforms such as Kubernetes, Lambda, EKS, and ECS - with experience of Kubernetes/EKS preferred.
• Implementing and maintaining security controls within the delivery pipeline, including SAST, vulnerability scanning, and code linting tools.
• Leveraging AWS services like CloudWatch, Athena, Config and CloudTrail to monitor and help secure cloud infrastructure.

Our software and data stack is:

• Python & JavaScript web application, deployed using CI/CD based on gitHub actions.
• GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL database (RDS).
• Data processing pipelines using Argo Workflows and Metaflow, with SQS-based events.

What we’re looking for:

Must haves:

• Deep experience in DevOps/Infrastructure or Platform Engineering. Equivalent to a Lead role in a start up environment, or senior - staff level in a larger corporate.
• Has deep expertise in AWS.
• Is confident building Infrastructure as Code, including working with Terraform.
• Has experience embedding and maintaining new tools and processes across the pipeline & tech stack (e.g., introducing vulnerability scanning).

Nice to have:

• Has knowledge of Google Cloud.
• Is familiar with Argo Workflows, Metaflow and SQS/event-driven patterns.
• Has deep Kubernetes/EKS operations experience.

What you'll get:

• The opportunity to build a company solving the world’s most urgent sustainability challenge.

Find out more about us at natcapresearch.com