Lead Platform Engineer

Koalafi

Hands-on engineering leader managing platform engineering team at Koalafi. Responsible for team performance, growth, and delivering quality platform engineering work.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeRichmond • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $174,000 - $236,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage a team of engineers
Own 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations
Build a team culture that is organized, reliable, and focused on impact
Be a strong technical contributor
Own day-to-day technical decisions within the team's scope
Translate architectural direction into sprint-level tasks
Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines and delivery automation
Improve observability and operational readiness across metrics
Own incident response coordination
Manage performance management

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrated history as a formal people manager or tech lead with direct reports
7+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure/platform engineering
Strong hands-on experience with Terraform in production
Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production
Strong AWS fundamentals
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Strong observability fundamentals
Experience building automation using Bash and at least one general-purpose language
Strong troubleshooting skills
Hands-on experience using AI coding tools

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 infrastructureplatform engineeringTerraformKubernetesAWSCI/CD pipelinesBashgeneral-purpose programming languageobservabilityautomation

Soft Skills

team managementperformance managementcareer developmentteam culture buildingtechnical contributionincident response coordinationcommunicationorganizational skillsreliabilityimpact focus