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The Platform Engineer role is critical to Coast and could be described with any of DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure titles. In 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.

This role is open to anywhere in the United States, however our office and the majority of our team are located in New York City.

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 don’t 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 4-6 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: $125,000 - $150,000 annually

• Signing bonus

• Equity grant: commensurate with level determined at the discretion of the company, with meaningful potential upside given the company’s early stage
  

• Benefits overview: