Senior DevOps Engineer, Goodstack
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1-5 days a week in office
API-first giving & purpose platform
Posted today
API-first giving & purpose platform
101-200 employees
Posted today
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1-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make it easy to do good on a global scale.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re motivated by impact, love building elegant infrastructure, thrive on enabling others, and want to shape the future of a platform that truly matters, this is your role
- 5+ years of experience as a Platform, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineer in high-scale environments
- Deep expertise with AWS (ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3, networking)
- Strong proficiency in Terraform (HCL) — from writing complex modules to managing multi-env deployments or at least strong proficiency in another IaC tool like Pulumi/CloudFormation
- Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (GitHub Actions, or similar)
- Proficiency in a programming language like Node.js, Python or Go
- Strong *nix sysadmin skills
- Strong grounding in containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and production best practices
- A system-wide perspective, you think about reliability, performance, security, and developer experience holistically
- Experience mentoring or guiding engineers, and a desire to lead by example
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Exposure to serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge)
- Familiarity with Typescript/Node.js ecosystems
- Comfort with incident response, SRE principles, and reliability engineering
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced, forward-thinking Senior Platform Engineer to help us scale the infrastructure that powers our mission
- You’ll be a technical leader and hands-on builder on a collaborative team, guiding decisions, mentoring peers, and ensuring our systems are reliable, secure, and built for growth
- Work on the design and evolution of our AWS-based systems with a focus on automation, resilience, and scale
- Own and extend our Terraform codebases, setting standards for maintainability, security, and modularity
- Drive improvements in our containerised environments (ECS/EKS) and champion best practices for running Node.js services in production
- Proactively identify opportunities to optimise cost, performance, and developer velocity
- Mentor and support mid-level platform engineers, raising the bar for technical excellence and collaboration
- Work with engineering in a wider sense to ensure their success with the platform
- Partner with engineering leadership to define platform strategy, architecture choices, and roadmap
- Elevate observability, monitoring, and incident response practices across the stack
- You’ll work closely with:
- Software Engineers to unblock and accelerate product delivery
- Product Teams to anticipate infrastructure needs for growth and new features
- Security and Compliance to design systems that meet rigorous standards
- Other Platform Engineers to continuously improve how we build, ship, and run software
- After 3 months, success will look like:
- Leading a significant infrastructure project (e.g., migration, scaling initiative, or architecture upgrade)
- Full ownership of one or more critical services/components
- Actively mentoring other engineers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As global events like the Climate Crisis, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine have shown, aligning brands with purpose is more important now than ever. However, the processes of integrating purpose-driven initiatives into businesses have traditionally been manual, archaic, and inefficient.
Goodstack's API-first platform simplifies this process by enabling companies to seamlessly integrate giving and purpose into their operations. The technology connects businesses with over 8.6M non-profits across 185 countries, eliminating the complexities of charitable giving.
From enabling donations at the end of streaming documentaries to supporting in-kind donations and powering giving on social media platforms, Goodstack's mission is to embed purpose in every company. With its innovative technology, impressive funding and growing global presence, Goodstack's forward-thinking approach positions it for a future of bright success.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2022
$40.6m
SERIES A
Jul 2021
$5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $45.6m
Company benefits
- 💰 Salary reviews
- 💝 Goodstack’s Workplace Giving - Charitable donations matching of up to £250 every year.
- ⚕️ Private medical insurance
- ☀️ £250 every year to spend on anything to brighten your day… anything!
- 🤓 £1,000 annual learning & development budget
- 🎤 Paid days to attend conferences
- ⭐️ Paid days off to volunteer for non-profit causes
- 📚 Goodstack library
- ⚖️ Flexible working
- 🌴 25 days of annual leave, plus paid bank holidays.
- 🎂 Your birthday off
- 🧘🏽 Wellness days
- 💙 Paid sick leave
- 💚 Paid mental health leave
- 💻 MacBook when you join
- 🖥️ Work-from-home allowance
- 🌳 Ecologi Carbon Offsetting
- 💰 UK salary sacrifice / USA 401(k) plan
- 🚢 Team socials
- 🚴🏾 UK cycle-to-work scheme
- 🍽 Tasty Tuesday – Office lunch is on the company
- 🏃🏿♀️ Slow run club (Wednesdays)
- 🪁 Parental leave
Company values
- Purpose over profit: We consider the actions as individuals and a collective and make decisions to maximise the positive impact on people. This means we act ethically and not at the expense of people 🫶
- Candid & kind: Ideas meritocracy discovered by direct honesty, but with no rudeness or disrespect - life’s too short!
- High speed, high agency: Moving fast, aiming high, and upholding excellence in everything we do to scale impact even further. The nonprofit space has been left behind for too long - let’s change that!
- Lemon twist: This is the little bit of extra magic, the secret sauce, the spark of unusual, or the element of surprise. Great ideas come to life where being and thinking differently are celebrated - bring on the Lemon Twist!™️ 🍋
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
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Leadership
Henry Ludlam
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founder of TeamFirst and S&C Productions LTD. Previous experience providing founder advice and mentorship through Wayra.
Stef Greer
(Co-Founder & CPO)Co-founded Goodstack in 2017 and has served as the CPO since.
Jack Samler
(COO)Jack joined Goodstack in 2024 as the COO. Prior to that, they spent 3 years at Voi Technology as a Managing Director. 3 years at Deliveroo as a Senior Manager, Head of Sales & Business Development and Commercial Director. They also spent nearly 3 years at BBC as a Strategy Associate and Manager.
People progressing
Sam joined Goodstack in 2022 as an API Engineer and now serves as an Engineering Manager.
Noe joined Goodstack as a Software Engineer in the non-profit experience team and now works in the grants team.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Goodstack
Henry Ludlam (CEO)
- As the CEO of Goodstack, I am proud to share our mission of harnessing technology to power purpose in every organisation worldwide. A crucial aspect of our success is our unwavering commitment to cultivating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable work environment that enables our team to thrive
- We take pride in our diverse and growing team representing 16+ nationalities across 5 continents 🌍! Our continued expansion provides us with opportunities to embrace and celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, essential to our success. We actively seek and welcome applicants from all walks of life, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status
- Our policies, such as parental leave are designed to help our people balance work and family life, allowing them to prosper in their careers 🪁
- To foster our team's continuous growth, we've allocated a budget for Learning & Development, enabling team members to attend conferences, up-skill, and expand their knowledge with company-sponsored resources 📚
- At Goodstack, we dream big about the positive impact we can create and work relentlessly to deliver donations to purpose-driven organisations globally. We understand the intensity of our mission and prioritise our team's well-being by encouraging mental health breaks without salary deductions ❤️
- To support diverse work preferences, we offer flexible work arrangements, including remote work and a dedicated office space for our London-based employees. Together, we foster a candid & kind workplace where all voices matter, fueling collective growth and global impact
- A team that well represents the world that we are trying to support is a wiser, more knowledgeable and stronger one. We’re excited for you to bring your experience, yourself & special [lemon twist](https://goodstack.io/about) to Goodstack to propel us forward in striving to create a better world for us all.
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