Engineering Lead, Platform Engineering
Location
Virginia
Posted
58 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Engineering Lead, Platform Engineering
Koalafi
• 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
Job Requirements
- 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
- 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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