5+ years building and operating production infrastructure, with meaningful exposure to security or a strong interest in moving deeper into security problems
Deep knowledge of Google Cloud Platform and/or AWS, including compute, networking, IAM, and security services
Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar) and a track record of building developer-facing tooling and automation
Strong coding ability in at least one systems language (eg. Python, Go, TypeScript) and comfort building paved-path tooling teams actually adopt
Experience applying AI-assisted tooling (Cursor, Claude Code, and similar) to make engineers dramatically more effective
Experience with secure container deployment, service mesh, and Kubernetes security best practices
Observability and incident-response tooling experience (instrumentation, alerting, dashboards), with a bias toward eliminating toil
Clear written communication and the ability to turn ambiguous requirements into simple, reliable designs
A track record of being an early or founding platform/infrastructure/security engineer at another company
Experience building internal platforms: service templates, paved-road deployment, self-serve environments, or developer portals
A security-minded approach to the software supply chain (provenance, secrets, least privilege) and familiarity with static analysis tooling (Semgrep, CodeQL)
Experience with detection and response data pipelines (Kafka/Pulsar, Splunk/Panther/RunReveal, or similar)
Knowledge of enterprise compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR) from an infrastructure and platform perspective