Lead Cloud Platform Engineer, Coupa
$125-174.3k
Business spending management platform
Open for applications
Business spending management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$125-174.3k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide a clear idea of business value for clients.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years experience as a Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or SRE managing Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) at massive enterprise scale
- Hands-on experience with intelligent resource automation platforms (e.g., ScaleOps) and automated scaling tools like Karpenter
- Strong understanding of FinOps principles and experience driving cost avoidance strategies in a dynamic cloud-native environment
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, OpenTofu) and configuration management
- Deep expertise in AWS/GCP cloud services, containerization technologies, and managing large compute footprints
- Excellent cross-functional communication skills with a track record of aligning technical objectives with business and financial goals
What the job involves
- As a Lead Platform Engineer specializing in Cloud and Kubernetes, you will help oversee and architect our highly scaled, continuous growing cloud environment
- You will champion automation by default and apply FinOps principles to ensure efficiency, resilience, and scalable growth across our fleet of clusters
- Your work will directly eliminate manual toil and optimize resource management, empowering Coupa to deliver highly available and performant services to our customers
- Architect, manage, and scale our enterprise Kubernetes infrastructure (EKS/GKE) to ensure high availability and performance across a large fleet of clusters
- Oversee automated continuous platform optimization, shifting away from manual tuning and human toil to scalable, automated resource management systems
- Implement and manage intelligent resource automation platforms to automate workload sizing, placement, and Karpenter configurations by default
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, FinOps, and Finance teams to drive sustainable cost avoidance and alignment, moving beyond retroactive cost savings
- Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and deep observability tools for the Kubernetes ecosystem
- Mentor engineers and lead architectural initiatives to improve platform resilience, security, and operational excellence
Our take
In 2006, Coupa was created to be a provider of business spending management (BSM) services. Since then, it has grown into its niche with a comprehensive platform that enables companies to gain greater control over their spending, supply networks, chain optimisation, liquidity management and payment solutions.
Coupa has been recognized as a leading brand in third-party risk management (TPRM). Using AI software, its TPRM software takes data from hundreds of sources and generates risk flags across the entire platform, informing the user’s processing decisions.
TPRM integrates into Coupa’s business spending management systems to provide one comprehensive platform, a feat that gives it a definitive edge when it comes to secure management of company funds. Most recently, the company acquired intelligent document processing partner, Rossum, in a move set to strengthen its source-to-pay capabilities and expand AI-powered invoice automation across the wider platform.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Mar 2014
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $169m
Company HQ
Town Center, Foster City, CA
Leadership
Leagh Turner
(CEO & Board Of Directors)Previously on the Board of Directors at Plan International Canada, was the Co-CEO of Ceridian and was COO at SAP.
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