Hybrid Engineering Team Lead – Infrastructure & Operations

at Kasada

• Job title: Engineering Team Lead – Infrastructure & Operations
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Apache, AWS, Cloud, Kafka, Kubernetes, Linux, Redis
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sydney, Australia

About the role

• Team Lead for Infrastructure & Operations at Kasada, defending against fraud and automation threats. Leading infrastructure engineering and shaping engineering foundations for a high-traffic platform.

Responsibilities

• Foster a culture of trust, psychological safety, and pragmatic continuous improvement
• Not just managing backlog, you are expected to write code, and demonstrate “What Good Looks Like” to the team (architecture, code quality of infrastructure code, reliability, for example).
• Shape infrastructure and engineering foundations direction, drive architectural decisions across our AWS and EKS platform, provide architectural and tooling empowerment to other engineering teams with operational management of stateless and stateful systems such as RDS, Redis, Kinesis, Kafka, Kubernetes Operators, Apache Flink
• Own and evolve our on-call and incident response practices. All engineers in Kasada participate in on-call, and you'll help make that continue to be sustainable and effective as Kasada grows
• Partner with product engineering teams to unblock delivery and improve developer experience with a product mindset and customer empathy

Requirements

• You're energized by collaboration, genuinely curious, and motivated by helping teams (your own and others) deliver with confidence
• You have led cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE teams with empathy and great enjoyment, but you do not shy away from getting your hands dirty, whether it is writing glue code, debugging systems, or acting as technical escalation point for critical outages.
• You have 5+ years hands on experience in SRE, infrastructure, or DevOps roles, demonstrating experience in managing high-availability cloud infrastructure in production
• Strong grasp of production management and reliability engineering of AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, and cloud networking to support secure data movement across regions
• Firm believer in developer experience fundamentals through means such as CI/CD pipeline and Infrastructure as Code
• Product mindset to shape infrastructure and engineering foundation roadmap
• Additional bonus points if: You have experience working in “Platform Engineering” or “Engineering Foundation” teams that treat infrastructure as product
• Experience working in SOC2 and PCI compliant software environment

Benefits

• A stake in Kasada’s global success through equity/stock options
• Support for growing families, including generous parental leave and resources before, during, and after leave
• Wellbeing support to help you grow and recharge, including access to our EAP with confidential counselling for you and your loved ones
• Birthday leave
• Wellness leave
• Annual company offsites to connect, collaborate, and celebrate together
• A dog-friendly HQ in Sydney