What is Coast

Coast is re-imagining the trillion-dollar U.S. B2B card payments infrastructure, with a focus on the country’s 500,000 commercial fleets, 40 million commercial vehicles, and many millions of commercial drivers. The incumbent technologies that cater to these customers are decades old, and businesses with fleets increasingly demand modern digital experiences and transparent financial services products. Coast’s mission is to deliver this at a transformational scale, beginning with the Coast Fleet and Fuel Card built on a cutting-edge spend management platform.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Staff Data Engineer who can not just get their hands dirty building pipelines and also act as a thought leader for the company. Data sits at the center of everything we do, and we need someone who not only understands how to make it available, but how to make it accessible to everyone in the company. In the age of AI, making good decisions is key, and having accurate data is a core part of our decision-making process.

You won't be starting from scratch. We already run on Redshift, Dagster, and dbt, but the biggest pieces are still yours to build: a data catalog, a semantic layer, a mature security posture, and AI-ready access to our data.

This is a chance to lead a small, high-leverage team and touch all corners of the company, not just reporting and analytics. Our data organization follows a federated model: product teams own their data products, and the data platform gives them the patterns, tools, and guardrails to do that well. Your job isn't to be the team everyone files tickets with; it's to make everyone else at Coast better at producing and using data.

What You’ll Do

• Own Our Data Warehouse
• Provide High-Quality Patterns
• Be a Teacher
• Write Code

What Success Looks Like

In your first year, you’ll be successful if you:

1. Provide a model for understanding our data warehouse costs
2. Ship a data catalog that helps all employees know where to find good data
3. Have a strategy and have made real progress on building a data security posture, including row-level security, RBAC, and tokenization
4. Have a strategy and have made real progress on making our data safely accessible to AI agents

Requirements