Carbon Mapper, Inc. Platform Engineer (Early to Mid-level)- Geospatial Data Systems Remote · Full time

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Platform Engineer (Early to Mid-level)- Geospatial Data Systems

About Carbon Mapper

Carbon Mapper is a non-profit organization based in Pasadena, CA with the mission to drive greenhouse gas emission reductions by making methane and carbon dioxide data accessible and actionable. We leverage remote sensing technology to detect, pinpoint, and quantify methane and carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions at the scale of individual facilities. All of our methane and CO₂ data is made publicly available for non-commercial use on our Carbon Mapper Data Portal to provide decisionmakers with the information they need to prioritize and take mitigation action. 

Carbon Mapper also works with stakeholders and decision makers to fill data gaps, lead on cutting edge science, collaborate to drive reductions, and advance education and insights on emissions globally. To do this, we work with partners to leverage a constellation of satellites. Data from these satellites will offer the next major step in scaling up the organization's robust data portal featuring thousands of direct observations of global methane and CO₂ super-emitters. 

To learn more about Carbon Mapper, please visit us at https://carbonmapper.org.

To view our data, please visit us at https://data.carbonmapper.org.

About The Role

Carbon Mapper is looking for a Platform Engineer to support, operate, and improve the cloud infrastructure, deployment workflows, observability systems, automation, and operational practices that power Carbon Mapper's Data Platform.

The Platform Engineer will work closely with our Engineering and Science teams to support AWS cloud services, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, monitoring and alerting, incident response, operational documentation, and developer enablement. Carbon Mapper's current platform uses AWS services including Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, AWS Batch, CloudWatch, S3, IAM, and related networking, along with GitLab, New Relic, and PagerDuty.

This role is well suited for someone who wants to grow across platform engineering, AWS, CI/CD, reliability, and data platform operations- and who is excited to apply that work toward climate action.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Operations

·       Support AWS infrastructure for Carbon Mapper's application, data, and platform systems, including Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, AWS Batch, CloudWatch, S3, IAM, and networking

·       Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot cloud resources

·       Identify and implement infrastructure improvements to increase consistency, reliability, security, and cost efficiency across environments

CI/CD, Deployment, and Automation

·       Maintain, improve, and troubleshoot GitLab CI/CD pipelines for application, data, and infrastructure workflows, including build, test, deployment, and rollback automation

·       Help standardize deployment workflows across services and environments by creating templates and examples

·       Automate repetitive manual tasks and toil

Observability, Reliability, and Incident Support

·       Improve logging, metrics, and dashboards for services, jobs, and data pipelines

·       Participate in incident response and post-incident follow-up; help improve alerts, runbooks, recovery procedures, and reprocessing workflows

·       Triage and troubleshoot application, data pipeline, infrastructure, deployment, and alerting issues, and turn recurring problems into documentation, automation, or platform improvements

Security, Access, and Cost Awareness

·       Help implement practical guardrails for secure and efficient cloud operations

·       Identify underused, misconfigured, or inconsistent resources, and work with senior engineers to strengthen security, access, and cost practices

Documentation and Developer Enablement

·       Write and maintain deployment guides, runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, operational references, and reusable examples for common engineering workflows

·       Partner with software engineers and scientists on effective use of platform tools

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

Must-Have Skills & Experience:

●      3+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, cloud operations, infrastructure, systems administration, software engineering, data engineering, or a related technical role 

●      Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud provider 

●      Familiarity with serverless, containerized, or batch-oriented cloud workloads 

●      Experience with CI/CD concepts and tools, preferably GitLab CI/CD 

●      Experience with scripting or software development in Python, Bash, JavaScript, or a similar language 

●      Familiarity with Linux command-line tools and common software development workflows 

●      Basic understanding of networking, IAM/access control, environment configuration, and deployment concepts 

●      Familiarity with observability concepts such as logs, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and incident response 

●      Ability to troubleshoot technical issues using logs, diagnostic tools, documentation, and methodical investigation 

●      Strong writing, documentation, communication, and collaboration skills across engineering and science teams 

●      Interest in learning new tools, improving operational processes, and supporting production systems

Nice-to-Have Skills:

●      Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, AWS Batch, CloudWatch, S3, IAM, or VPC networking 

●      Experience building or maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines 

●      Experience with New Relic, PagerDuty, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability and incident management tools 

●      Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as AWS CDK for Python, Pulumi, or similar 

●      Experience with Docker, EKS, Kubernetes, JupyterHub, or related platform technologies 

●      Experience supporting production systems, incident response, or on-call rotations 

●      Experience supporting data pipelines, batch jobs, scientific workflows, geospatial data, or data-intensive cloud environments 

●      Experience with cloud cost monitoring, resource tagging, rightsizing, or infrastructure cleanup

Location

Carbon Mapper is headquartered in Pasadena, California, but we embrace the virtual office and are continuing to grow our team across the United States.

Compensation

The total compensation for this opportunity includes a base salary range of $130,000 – $150,000. This is our target compensation range and is subject to multiple factors including level, experience, and location. As you go through our interview process, our recruiter will work with you to identify a competitive base salary within the proposed range.

Benefits

As a Carbon Mapper employee, you will have access to a wide range of benefits including affordable health coverage (medical, dental, vision), a generous time-off policy, professional development, and more.

To apply, please visit us at https://carbonmapper.org/about/careers

Carbon Mapper is an equal opportunity employer that believes a diverse team will not just lead to a better working environment, but will also help us create better products and services.

Carbon Mapper is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. If any reasonable accommodation is needed in our process, please reach out to [email protected].