Engineering Lead, Platform Engineering

Koalafi

Engineering Lead managing teams and technical projects in platform engineering at Koalafi. Delivering quality solutions while mentoring engineers and driving team culture.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoKubernetesPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage a team of engineers with full accountability for their performance, growth, and wellbeing
Own 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations — providing direct, constructive feedback that helps engineers grow
Build a team culture that is organized, reliable, and focused on impact
Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and delivery coaching
Be a strong technical contributor: carry significant engineering weight alongside the team and actively deliver on high-impact work
Translate architectural direction into sprint-level tasks the team can act on
Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines and delivery automation: ensuring deployment safety, consistency, and velocity
Improve observability and operational readiness across metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and alerting — including actionable dashboards and SLO-based alerting
Design and implement automation and self-service workflows using infrastructure-as-code, APIs, and developer platforms to reduce developer friction
Own incident response coordination: drive the process, communicate status, and ensure issues reach the right people
Participate in the on-call rotation and help drive improvements that reduce incidents and alert noise over time
Build and maintain operational runbooks, escalation paths, and documentation for team-owned systems
Drive production readiness as a continuous standard, not a one-time checklist

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure/platform engineering with demonstrated scope growth and increasing leadership responsibility over that time
Strong hands-on experience with Terraform in production (modules, patterns, environment strategy, state management)
Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production
Strong AWS fundamentals: practical experience with compute, networking, IAM, and production operations
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Strong observability fundamentals including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, SLO/SLI design, and alerting strategy
Experience building automation using Bash and at least one general-purpose language (Python or Go)
Strong troubleshooting skills: you drive root cause analysis and implement long-term fixes, not workarounds
Hands-on experience using AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) as a productivity multiplier in production engineering work
Comfort partnering with senior technical peers and sound judgment on when to consult vs. decide independently.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
20 PTO days + 11 paid holidays
401(k) retirement with company matching
Student Loan & Tuition Reimbursement
Commuter assistance
Parental leave (maternal + paternal)
Inclusion and Associate Engagement Programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud infrastructure engineeringTerraformKubernetesAWSCI/CD pipelinesobservabilityBashPythonGoroot cause analysis

Soft Skills

team managementperformance reviewsmentoringtechnical contributioncommunicationincident response coordinationcollaborationleadershipfeedbackproblem-solving