# Lead Data Engineer at Coast

- Company: Coast
- What the company does: The first AI-powered demo platform designed to sell, market and implement technical products with ease. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://trycoast.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $170K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coast/jobs/6098241004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/coast-lead-data-engineer/

## About the role

We are looking for a leader of the Coast data engineering team to shape our company’s data culture and underlying infrastructure.

## What they're looking for

- have 7-10+ years hands-on experience working across the data ecosystem, from modern ETL/ELT and orchestration to data warehouses and columnar stores, from BI tooling for less-technical business users to SQL optimization,
- have software engineering mindset, leading with the principles of source control, infrastructure as code, testing, modularity, automation, CICD, and observability,
- bring in a strong professional network, since it is impossible to know everything, and one must be able to tap others for advice,
- have experience working directly with product engineers as well as business users,
- be proficient in Python, since you would be expected to contribute data platform aspects into product engineering code as well as write your own tools,
- have an owner mindset and continuously look for, notice, and implement improvements to our data infrastructure, because small continuous improvements matter,

Tags: Engineering