Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps/SRE/Infra)
Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps/SRE/Infra)
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$ 160000 - 215000
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Coast is re-imagining the trillion-dollar U.S. B2B card payments infrastructure with a focus on the countrys 500000 commercial fleets 40 million commercial vehicles and many million commercial drivers. The incumbent technologies that cater to these customers are decades old and drivers fleets and the merchants that serve them all increasingly demand modern digital experiences and affordable and transparent financial services products. Coasts mission is to deliver them at a transformational scale and to improve working lives in one of the countrys biggest industry sectors. The company is backed by top fintech and mobility venture funds.
Coast is competing and winning with software and we are building a world-class engineering team. This is a unique opportunity to get in on the ground level early on contribute in myriad ways drive foundational decisions and expand your impact as the business grows have fun and learn a ton in the process. If youre practical and business-minded smart and creative and excited about the rewards and the energy of an early-stage venture-backed startup wed love to hear from you.
In order to maximize the velocity of our product engineering we are hiring in NYC and the tri-state area only. Our office is located in the heart of Manhattans SoHo neighborhood benefiting from its vibrant creative energy.
The Platform Engineer role is critical to Coast and could be described with any of DevOps SRE or Infrastructure this role you will be an early member of the platform engineering team. The platform you build will enable velocity scalability and observability both at the operational and organizational level. Working directly with an enthusiastic and invested product team you will design implement maintain and improve our tooling from build and end-to-end testing to release and rollback automation from network security to multi-region resiliency from scalability to observability. At the end of the day we want to establish the paved paths with automation and processes that make it easy for product engineering to do the right thing and strike the balance between freedom and responsibility.
The Platform Engineer will:
- maximize the velocity for our product engineering team by simplifying their infrastructure concerns from speedy build and deployment to cross-region availability from email deliverability to network security practices;
- influence design and implementation of all aspects of our product from data engineering infrastructure to product architecture from code sharing patterns to developer tooling;
- hold a high bar for quality discipline and organization of the underlying infrastructure;
- evangelize advocate lead and promote the best practices whether it is Zero Trust networking or SLOs;
- shape the infrastructure and platform aspects of our product by listening to what the engineering teams are asking for even if they dont know the words to describe it;
- work to evaluate and integrate critical third-party software and infrastructure including the payments and mobility stacks;
- help shape the engineering culture of the company;
- remain relentlessly pragmatic and balance the product velocity demand with the needs of a well-managed platform.
The Platform Engineer must:
- have 7 years experience working with first-class engineering teams with a proven track record of consistent and frequent delivery of quality software to production;
- have experience working directly with product engineers to incrementally improve our practices;
- be proficient in at least one language ecosystem (Python Ruby Java TypeScript/JavaScript Go) since you would be expected to contribute platform aspects into product engineering code as well as write your own tools;
- have experience with one of Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi/CDK since we treat our infrastructure as code;
- deep hands-on knowledge and experience developing in the cloud (preferably AWS) with container management solutions (Kubernetes ECS);
- be able to figure stuff out - the modern infrastructure space is deep and complex and there are many ways of solving the same problem. You need to be able to go off on your own research and design a solution implement technical spikes and then deliver it with the team;
- have an owner mindset and continuously look for notice and implement improvements to our infrastructure because small continuous improvements matter;
- be a thought-leader that keeps a finger on the pulse of the industry - latest CNCF graduates trends in CICD networking security vendor landscape;
- have a clear philosophy of how to structure cloud infrastructure/ecosystems to promote security velocity and reliability.
Compensation
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry and are one part of our total compensation package that also includes benefits signing bonus and equity. Pay decisions are based on a number of factors including scope and qualifications for the role experience level skillset and balancing internal equity relative to other Coast employees. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at Coast to fall healthily within the range based on these factors.
- Salary range: $160000 - $215000 annually
- Signing bonus
- Equity grant: commensurate with level determined at the discretion of the company with meaningful potential upside given the companys early stage
- Benefits overview:
- Medical dental and vision insurance
- Unlimited paid time off (vacation personal well being paid holidays)
- Paid parental leave
- $400 accessories allowance (a keyboard mouse headphones etc.)
- Free lunch every Friday
- Education stipend
- 401(k)
About Coast
Coast is re-imagining the trillion-dollar U.S. B2B card payments infrastructure with a focus on the countrys 500000 commercial fleets 10 million commercial vehicles and 4 million commercial drivers.
Coast is founded and led by Daniel Simon who previously cofounded Bread () a leading payments and credit technology firm backed by some of the worlds top VCs which was acquired for $500MM in 2020.
Coast has raised $165M in total funding our recent $40M Series B equity round was led by ICONIQ Growth with participation from Thomvest and Synchrony. Were also backed by top fintech and mobility venture funds including Accel Insight Partners Better Tomorrow Ventures Avid Ventures Bessemer Venture Partners BoxGroup Foundation Capital Greycroft Colle and premier angel investors including Max Levchin (Affirm) Josh Abramowitz (Bread) Jason Gardner (Marqeta) William Hockey (Plaid) Ryan Petersen (Flexport) and many others.
Check out our CEOs recent podcast interview with Primary Venture Partners and last years product/market deep dive on Fintech Layer Cake with Coast Founder Daniel Simon!
Coast is committed to diversity equity and inclusion. We are building a diverse and inclusive environment so we encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. Were an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race color gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression age religion disability national origin protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable federal state or local law.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
