5+ years administering Linux systems and related infrastructure in production environments
A collaborative SRE mindset, with familiarity around SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, blast radius, and blameless postmortems
A focus on automation, reducing toil, and preventing problem recurrence
A track record of writing runbooks that work for the broader team, not just yourself
Strong Kubernetes and broader ecosystem fundamentals
Cloud infrastructure experience; AWS strongly preferred and bare-metal is a bonus
Strong tool development - Bash, plus either Python or Go preferred, or similar
Infrastructure-as-code tooling experience - Terraform preferred
CI/CD and version control, GitHub preferred
Database experience - one of Postgres, Cassandra, or ClickHouse preferred
Experience operating a production observability stack (metrics, logs, traces), with an eye for signal over noise
Comfortable working on live production infrastructure, with strong troubleshooting instincts and ownership of incident response
A history of continual professional development
A self-directed style suited to an async, globally distributed team, and comfortable picking up adjacent work when the situation calls for it