Mid-Level DevOps Engineer

📍  This hybrid role requires working from our London office in Fitzrovia once a week.

If you've been looking to join a fast-growing startup, backed by the same investors as Stripe & Airbnb, with a mission to make a huge positive impact, then you’ve found the right place!

Our Mission

Our mission at Goodstack is to revolutionise how the world does good 🌎.

We empower companies to seamlessly integrate positive impact into what they do through a unified platform while supporting nonprofits in gaining access to cutting-edge technology and finding new funding streams.

Global brands, including LinkedIn, HSBC, OpenAI, Atlassian and Twilio - as well as thousands of nonprofits, including the Red Cross, Cancer Research, and Oxfam - use Goodstack to make a difference.

We are on a rapid growth trajectory. Just in 2024, we facilitated $3 billion in donations to good causes. But this is just the beginning. We want to become the world's leading platform that facilitates donations to the most individual nonprofits in the world. To achieve this, we need incredible people to help us on our journey - we need you 🫵

Join our Startup and make a difference as DevOps Engineer!

We’re looking for a hands-on, systems-thinking DevOps Engineer to join our growing Platform Engineering team. You’ll be the fifth member of a highly collaborative, experienced DevOps team, responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving the infrastructure that powers our suite of Node.js applications, hosted in AWS.

If you’re passionate about enabling others, clean infrastructure, love automating everything, and want to support systems that truly make a difference in the world — this is the job for you.

As a Mid-Level DevOps Engineer, your mission will be to:

• Work closely with software engineering teams to help them develop, maintain and ship Support and enhance our AWS infrastructure , with a focus on automation and scalability.
• Design and maintain Terraform codebases for reproducible and secure infrastructure.
• Manage and optimize ECS clusters running Node.js applications.
• Collaborate with other engineers on tooling, documentation, and best practices.
  Monitor and improve infrastructure performance, security, and cost-efficiency.
  

You’ll work closely with:

• Software Engineers to deploy and scale applications.
• Product Teams to ensure infrastructure supports upcoming features and growth.
• Security and Compliance to ensure high standards are met across environments.
  

After 3 months, success will look like:

• You’ve contributed to at least one infrastructure upgrade or refactor.
• You’ve taken full ownership of a service or component (e.g., ECS, EKS, Terraform module).
• You’ve improved our CI/CD workflows or added monitoring/observability value.
• Software Engineers to deploy and scale applications.
• Product Teams to ensure infrastructure supports upcoming features and growth.
• Security and Compliance to ensure high standards are met across environments.

This role is perfect for you if you have:

• A passion for nonprofit tech, sustainability, or social impact!
• 2–4 years of experience as a DevOps, Infrastructure, or Platform Engineer.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS , particularly ECS, IAM, VPCs, CloudWatch, and S3.
  • Good knowledge of Terraform (HCL), including writing modules and managing environments.
  • Comfort working in environments that use Postgres (Aurora) and Node.js services.
  • Good familiarity with CI/CD pipelines , ideally using tools like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar.
  • A collaborative mindset and eagerness to help others through knowledge-sharing and tooling.

Bonus, but not required, if you have knowledge or love of:

• Experience with observability tools like Datadog , Prometheus , or Grafana
• Exposure to serverless architecture (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway)
• Javascript/Typescript
• Knowledge of Linux, Docker and Kubernetes best practices

🇬🇧 What you can expect upon joining our team

💰 Salary reviews and share options
🌯 Tasty Tuesday! Office lunch is on the company 
⚕️ Vitality - Private medical insurance - vision, dental & hearing coverage
🌞 £250 Brighten your day annual budget
🤓 £1000 Learning & Development annual budget 
🎤 Paid days to attend conferences and level up your skills
📚 Goodstack library
🦸🏻 Paid days to volunteer for non-profit causes 
🌴 25 days annual leave, plus paid public holidays 
🥳 Paid day off on your birthday! 
🧘🏽 Paid wellness leave
💙 Paid sick leave 
🧓🏽 Pension 
🚴🏾 UK cycle-to-work scheme
⚖️ Flexible working hours
🪁 Parental leave
🖥️ WFH budget upon joining
🏡 You're always welcome to pop in more often if you enjoy the buzz of being in the office. It's a warm, friendly space right in the heart of London
🙌 … and so much more

About us

Since 2017, Goodstack has been at the forefront of integrating social and environmental value into organisational purpose. In today's landscape, more businesses are recognising the necessity of embedding purpose into their operations to stay relevant.

To catalyse this transformation, we are constructing efficient global charitable rails accessible via an API globally.

Our vision is clear: To power purpose in every company and non-profit worldwide by leading the charge towards a future where doing good is not just an option but a fundamental principle of successful business shifting towards a better, purpose-driven world.

Let's do this! 💜

OUR PLEDGE TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

We take pride in our diverse and growing team representing 15+ 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.

A team that 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 and  your special  lemon twist to Goodstack to propel us forward in striving to create a better world for us all.

Check out our  Careers Page for more details!