Massive Scale Experience: Prior experience in high-performance computing (HPC) or handling global installations processing petabytes of telemetry per day
Customer-Facing Observability: Experience building external or customer-exposed observability tools, APIs, and analytics dashboards with strict latency and access-control constraints
Network & Systems Deep Dive: Deep operational understanding of high-performance Linux kernel tuning, ebpf, eBPF-based profiling, or low-level network optimization
Multi-Cloud Expertise: Prior experience running cloud-agnostic platform infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP simultaneously
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7-12 years of professional experience building infrastructure and backend distributed systems at scale using languages such as Go, C++, Java, or Rust
Proven track record of developing, deploying, and maintaining hyper-scale distributed systems in public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Deep theoretical and practical CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency patterns, storage engines, distributed consensus, networking protocols)
Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, or Pulumi
Hands-on expertise with time-series databases, high-cardinality metric stores, distributed tracing frameworks (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger), or log streaming systems (Kafka, Flink, ClickHouse, Prometheus/Thanos)
Superior communication and collaboration skills