About us
Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.
Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.
About the role
You'll work across the entire stack—from infrastructure automation and observability to developer enablement and system reliability. You will be a key collaborator with software engineering and security teams, helping to evolve our Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enhance CI/CD pipelines, and scale our internal developer platform. We value pragmatism and engineering excellence, primarily using Python, Go, and AWS to reduce toil and build self-service capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Infrastructure Automation: Design, build, and scale production environments using AWS and Terraform, driving architectural decisions that improve long-term maintainability and reliability.
- System Reliability: Lead efforts to improve platform resilience through failure-based testing, automated recovery strategies, and proactive capacity planning.
- Developer Enablement: Own the design and delivery of reusable platform components and self-service tools that streamline the developer experience and reduce cross-team toil.
- Observability: Define and evolve observability standards across the platform, including system metrics, distributed tracing, and SLO frameworks.
- Project Ownership: Own projects end to end—from initial scoping and effort estimation through detailed planning, execution, and successful rollout.
- Mentorship & Standards: Mentor engineers across the team, uphold high infrastructure quality, and actively shape the best practices and standards used by the organization.
- Collaboration: Engage in technical design discussions, providing guidance and feedback while adapting strategies based on team input and evolving requirements.
- On-Call: Participate in a low-volume on-call rotation.
Skills and Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Software Development roles
- Hands-on experience operating production environments in AWS
- Proficiency in Go or Python, with experience building production-grade automation, tooling or libraries
- Strong experience with Terraform
- Experience with container orchestration platforms like ECS or Kubernetes
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions
- Experience designing and implementing re-usable platform components based on team requirements
- Solid understanding of observability practices including system metrics, distributed tracing, and SLOs
- Exposure to failure-based testing approaches and automated recovery strategies
- Strong leadership and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience evangelizing reliability best practices
Bonus Points
- Experience with microservices architectures
- Exposure to Kafka or other event streaming systems
- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure
- Familiarity with systems security, compliance requirements, or hardening practices
Compensation
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $158,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $234,125/year in our highest geographic market. Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.
Perks
- 100% medical, dental and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO policy
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
- Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Wellhub, and more)!
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
Why Coalition?
Work at Coalition is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote-first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each other to take responsibility, share ownership of outcomes, and put in the work together to protect businesses from digital risk. Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes while remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.
We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.
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Anti-Discrimination Notice
Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable laws in each country where we operate. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, ensuring equal treatment in recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, and all other aspects of employment. Coalition does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.
Accommodations
Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at candidateaccommodations@coalitioninc.com. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.
To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.