Staff Platform Engineer, Coast
DevOps/Site Reliability Engineering/Infrastructure
$190-215k
+ Equity and Bonus
Office located in SoHo, NY
Payments platform & fuel card for fleets
Open for applications
Payments platform & fuel card for fleets
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$190-215k
+ Equity and Bonus
Office located in SoHo, NY
21-100 employees
Company mission
Coast's mission is to make fleet management easy.
Role
Who you are
- Have 8-12+ 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
What the job involves
- The Staff 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
- 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
- Week 1:
- We use OKRs to help us focus, and Kanban to organize day to day work - you will start picking up small improvements off the board and contribute across our IaC, observability, and CICD ecosystems
- We treat infrastructure as code, so we expect you to get your first story merged by the end of the week after passing automated checks and peer review
- You will establish the cadence of 1x1s with your manager
- Month 1:
- Write your first Terraform module start-to-finish
- Build and Deploy a new observability pattern
- Add a new CI pipeline
- Contribute to planning, retrospectives, code reviews
- Write your first design document for a major feature
- Month 2:
- All of the above, but also you will get to do your first dev talk
- Establish your development goals with your manager
Our take
In recent years, companies like Ramp, Brex, Divvy, and others have emerged to provide easier ways for companies to allow their employees to pay for job-related expenses through corporate cards. However, none of these services really work for businesses operating automobile fleets - approximately 10% of B2B card spend in the US.
That’s where Coast comes in, offering a modern card issuing expense solution specifically built for fleets. The Coast card meets the demands of fleets-specific controls, security, and visibility, contributing to preventing fraud and unauthorized use. Its platform allows fleet managers to visualize spend, block or flag transactions for review, and set their own rules for card holders.
With good funding at its back, coast has been focussed on expanding the platform’s capabilities and offering a wider range of financial products - including serving parking, maintenance, and other on-the-road expenses on top of just fuel. Its Visa Fleet card program, that enables Coast Visa Fleet cardholders to make payments wherever Visa is accepted, makes it an attractive option in the market as fleet management continues to modernize.
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52% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2024
$40m
SERIES B
Mar 2024
$25m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $98.5m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Meaningful stock options
- Flexible vacation policy
Company values
- Collaboration: Our business is complex with a lot of moving parts that requires everyone to work together within and across functions.
- Transparency: We tell the whole truth whenever we can, speak up, and don’t shy away from challenging each other, empathetically.
- Obsession with customers: The customer is our north star, and that means we listen to what they have to say, constantly.
- Eagerness: Our curiosity to learn gives us confidence in innovation. We don’t have all the answers, or even all the right questions.
- Accountability: Everyone at Coast owns every company outcome and nobody lets a ball drop hoping someone else will catch it.
- Rigor: We follow through on quality commitments, and hold ourselves to promises with metrics and standards. Discipline enables agility.
- Scrappiness: We get creative on how to achieve goals within our means, spend money where needed and own and defend the decision.
- Speed: We are never satisfied with where we are and never sit still. We have a bias for action: plan, get it done. Velocity is our oxygen.
Company HQ
NoHo, New York, NY
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Leadership
Daniel Simon
(CEO)Previously co-founded consumer finance startup Bread, which sold to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million in 2020.
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