Platform Engineer (DevOps/SRE/Infra)

The Platform Engineer role at Coast is critical to the company's success and will involve building a platform that enables velocity, scalability, and observability. The engineer will work directly with the product team to design, implement, maintain, and improve tooling, from build and end-to-end testing to release and rollback automation, from network security to multi-region resiliency, from scalability to observability. The ideal candidate will have 4-6 years of experience working with engineering teams, be proficient in at least one language ecosystem, have experience with infrastructure as code, and have deep hands-on knowledge and experience developing in the cloud. The role is open to anywhere in the United States.

• Maximize the velocity for the product engineering team by simplifying their infrastructure concerns
• Influence design and implementation of all aspects of the product
• Hold a high bar for quality, discipline, and organization of the underlying infrastructure
• Evangelize, advocate, lead and promote the best practices
• Shape the infrastructure and platform aspects of the product
• Evaluate and integrate critical third-party software and infrastructure
• 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.

• 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.

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Unlimited paid time off (vacation, personal well being, paid holidays)
• Paid parental leave
• $400 accessories allowance for home office setup to be spent on a keyboard, mouse, headphones, etc.
• Free lunch every Friday