Engineering Team Lead - Infrastructure & Operations

Join us in stopping bad bots, for good! Kasada protects millions of online users everyday. Founded to stop automated bot attacks, we believe the internet should be a safe place for everyone. Bad bots are highly destructive. They take over accounts, steal content, overload systems and infrastructure and cause billions of dollars in damages every year. Seeking to restore trust in the internet, Kasada stops bots at the very first request including those that have never been seen before.

We’ve grown from a few friends working out of a shipping container under the Sydney Harbour Bridge to now operating globally, we’re spread across the world protecting some of the most well-known brands on the face of the earth.

We’re an innately curious team that’s not afraid to bring bold ideas to create better ways of solving problems. We’re looking for people who are passionate about solving some of the most difficult and pressing cybersecurity issues, while having fun doing it!

Kasada has an exciting opportunity to join our team responsible for defending our customers against fraud and malicious automation. Attackers use automated frameworks, fake devices and device farms to launch highly costly attacks on our customers. As a leader of the Infrastructure & Operations (IO) team, you will be leading a highly capable infrastructure engineering team in building scalable cloud compute platform and engineering foundations in helping us defeating adversaries. A critical part of this role involves empowering other engineering teams, and ensuring our high traffic volume workload are performant, resilient, and cost efficient.

We are looking for a “Player-Coach” to lead our IO team and scale by managing complexity such as automation, architectural patterns, and golden paths. While your focus may shift from time to time, you are expected to remain technical and hands on, while being the people leader, and shaping the engineering foundations roadmap through product thinking.

• Culture fostering: Foster a culture of trust, psychological safety, and pragmatic continuous improvement

• Lead from the front: 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). Kasada is handling billions of requests every day and protecting our customers from adversaries, the infrastructure team plays a key role in making that happen.

• Shape infrastructure direction: 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

• Drive operational excellence: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

• Build scalable solutions: Partner with product engineering teams to unblock delivery and improve developer experience with a product mindset and customer empathy

• 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

• AWS, Kubernetes (Operators, CRD, Statefulsets etc)

• Grafana, Prometheus/Thanos, Splunk

• TypeScript, Pulumi

• Buildkite, Argo Rollout

We’re committed to making Kasada a place where you can do the best work of your career — and feel supported while doing it. We foster an inclusive, highly collaborative environment grounded in our core values, and we’ve built our benefits to help you thrive both inside and outside of work.

• 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

If this sounds interesting, hit the Apply button and one of our team will be in touch for an exploratory, confidential conversation. Our hiring process is designed to be thoughtful, efficient, and transparent — so everyone can make an informed decision about whether Kasada is the right next step.

When applying, you’re welcome to share the pronouns you use and any adjustments you may need during the interview process — we want you to feel set up for success in every conversation.

Research shows that women and individuals from underrepresented backgrounds are less likely to apply unless they meet every requirement. If this role excites you and you think you could add value, we’d love to hear from you — even if you don’t tick every box. We value diverse perspectives and welcome different paths and experiences.

Please note: Kasada is an E-Verify employer (US-based applicants only).