IT Business Systems Engineer

We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans. Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.

The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.

Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Tesla, Apple, Virgin Orbit, Astra, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries.

Our core technology is the node, a device that produces energy in the ocean’s harshest conditions for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention.

We're looking for a Business Systems Engineer to own the platforms our company runs on day to day and the connective tissue between them. Google Workspace, Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, and Slack are where work actually happens here. You'll own how they're configured, and how they talk to each other.

This role is for someone who reaches for an API when the admin console runs out of road. A lot of the work is eliminating the manual handoffs between systems: the spreadsheet someone maintains by hand, the ticket someone copies into a second tool, the approval that lives in a DM. You'll find those and replace them with something that runs itself.

You'll partner across Finance, People Ops, and Engineering to understand what they need, then build it. Our IAM Engineer owns the identity plane, so you'll work together on SSO and provisioning for the applications you administer.

Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.

• Own Google Workspace administration: tenant configuration, organizational units, Drive and sharing governance, email routing and security, and rollout of new capabilities
• Administer Jira, Jira Service Management, and Confluence, including projects, workflows, custom fields, forms, permission schemes, automation rules, and reporting
• Own Slack workspace configuration: channel standards, app and integration approvals, retention, and Slack Connect governance
• Maintain a clear administration model for each platform, including who can change what and how changes are reviewed

• Design and build integrations between business systems using APIs, webhooks, and automation platforms
• Write and maintain code that automates recurring work across SaaS tools, with version control, monitoring, and error handling
• Replace manual processes and shadow spreadsheets with reliable, observable workflows
• Own the reliability of the integrations you build, including alerting when they fail and runbooks for when they need help

• Work with Finance, People Ops, Legal, and Engineering to translate process problems into system designs
• Drive intake, requirements, and rollout for new business applications, including evaluation, pilot, and adoption
• Build reporting and dashboards that give teams visibility into their own work
• Document configurations and workflows so the next person can pick them up