Senior Platform Engineer - Core Engineering

Novata is a public benefit corporation founded by a unique consortium of leading foundations and private-sector organizations, including the Ford Foundation, the Omidyar Network, S&P Global, and Hamilton Lane. Our mission is to empower the private markets to build a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism. We do this by providing best-in-class technology and tools to help clients collect, analyze, benchmark, and report ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) data. With a diverse, experienced, and mission-driven team, we are building a company that values both performance and purpose.

Novata is proud to have acquired Atlas Metrics to expand our global reach and expand our product innovation. Together, we make sustainability even simpler for private markets. Now, 400+ clients and over 13,000 companies worldwide count on Novata to make collecting, reporting, and acting on sustainability data easy.

Job Summary

Join a high-performing Core Engineering team where collaboration, trust, and technical excellence are at the heart of everything we do. Our team is a diverse group of software and platform engineers who thrive on solving complex challenges and building the foundational systems that power the entire engineering organization. We value ownership, reliability, and a willingness to support each other-especially when it matters most. You'll work alongside talented peers who are passionate about automation, reliability, and continuous improvement, in an environment where your expertise and initiative are recognized and celebrated. If you're driven by impact, eager to mentor others, and excited to shape the future of our platform, you'll find a supportive and inspiring home here. This role is a senior technical leadership position in platform engineering with a strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) focus, responsible for building, automating, and operating foundational infrastructure and services that maximize engineering productivity, reliability, and scalability.

What You'll Be Doing

• Architect, implement, and manage cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, Docker, Azure) to support scalable and reliable platforms.
• Champion SRE principles: drive service reliability, availability, and performance through automation, monitoring, and incident management.
• Lead platform automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives to improve deployment velocity and system consistency.
• Own observability, monitoring, and alerting using Datadog and related tools, ensuring actionable insights and rapid incident response.
• Collaborate with software engineers to ensure robust integration between application and platform layers, and to improve developer experience (DevX).
• Provide expert support for critical incidents and production issues, demonstrating high ownership and urgency (including out-of-hours support when required).
• Mentor and guide engineers in platform, SRE, and DevOps best practices, fostering a culture of reliability and continuous improvement.
• Identify and address gaps in tooling, automation, and platform reliability to proactively improve engineering outcomes.

About You

• Deep expertise in platform engineering with a strong grounding in SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, incident response, automation, reliability).
• Proven experience with cloud infrastructure (preferably Azure), container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform and Terragrunt), and automation.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex reliability and infrastructure challenges independently and proactively.
• High sense of ownership, reliability, and willingness to go above and beyond for the team and organization.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to work effectively across engineering and product teams.
• Trusted advisor and role model for platform and SRE excellence, setting standards for reliability, automation, and operational maturity.
• This role is based in London with hybrid working arrangements (2 days in office).
• Applicants must be located in and eligible to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are unable to support visa applications or relocation at this time.
• Equity ownership opportunities
• Robust leave policies (PTO, parental leave, VTO)
• Flexible work environment with two days working from the London Office
• Mission-driven, collaborative, and inclusive culture

Why Join Us?

Novata is a mission-first company built to enable the private markets to drive more impact. We are at the unique intersection of ESG, the private markets, and mission driven impact. We are well-funded, have a top tier executive leadership team. We have a highly aggressive growth plan to establish ourselves as the industry leader of ESG with immediate plans for product and international expansion.

Members of our leadership team have been globally recognized for their success as leaders of large public companies, founders of successful startups, leaders of established ESG organizations, and builders of robust tech platforms. We are passionate, highly motivated, and experienced individuals who embrace our diverse backgrounds. Together, we will become the platform of choice and a catalyst for a change in the way business is done.

The pay range for this role is:

115,000 - 115,000 GBP per year (Hybrid (London, England, GB