Cloud Expertise: Proven ability to design and scale fault-tolerant distributed systems and build managed cloud services that customers rely on directly
Observability Familiarity: Experience with observability data and technologies, such as log aggregation, time-series databases, or distributed tracing. Familiarity with tools like Loki, VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar is a plus
Product Ownership: Experience owning a customer-facing service or product surface end to end, including API design, rollout, and iterating based on customer feedback
Customer-Centric Mindset: A genuine interest in how customers experience your work. You notice friction, you care about defaults and error messages, and you measure success by what customers can do without help
Technical Proficiency: Strong fundamentals in microservices and infrastructure technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD systems
Collaboration Skills: Ability to work with cross-functional teams to align priorities and deliver customer-first solutions
Communication Skills: Clear ability to articulate technical ideas and connect design decisions to customer needs
Mentorship: Willingness to mentor earlier-career engineers and contribute to a strong, inclusive engineering culture
Professional Experience: 5+ years of software development experience, including programming with modern compiled languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or C++