5+ years of experience building and operating high-scale production systems
Strong proficiency in Rust and systems-level programming
Deep understanding of distributed systems, reliability engineering, and performance optimization
Experience operating services serving millions of users or high-throughput workloads
Familiarity with ML infrastructure, model serving, or MLOps in production environments
Experience designing observability, monitoring, and failure recovery systems
Strong collaboration skills working across infrastructure and applied engineering teams
High ownership mindset in high-stakes production environment
Experience building infrastructure for agent-based or LLM-powered systems
Background in high-performance networking, async systems, or low-latency architectures
Experience with container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure
Familiarity with evaluation frameworks and model performance monitoring at scale
Experience working in fast-moving 0→1 or platform-building teams
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