Technical Lead - DevOps

At Koalafi, we're hiring a Technical Lead for DevOps to own the delivery and operational health of our platform engineering team. As a hands-on leader, you'll translate strategic direction into a clear backlog and drive the team to deliver with quality and predictability. You'll work in a cloud-forward environment and leverage AI tools in your own work and team culture.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering
• Demonstrated experience as a formal people manager or tech lead with direct reports
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform in production
• 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 a general-purpose language (Go or Python)
• Strong troubleshooting skills: you drive root cause analysis and implement long-term fixes
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) as a productivity multiplier in production engineering work

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