• Systems thinking. You have a genuine understanding of distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure. You don't need to be the most senior engineer technically, but you need to be credible to people who are.
• Reliability. You've worked in or led a team that takes SRE seriously. You know what error budgets are actually for, when SLOs are miscalibrated, and how to run postmortems that improve things.
• Automation. You get uncomfortable when skilled engineers spend time on work a machine could do. You've built teams that automate away the repetitive work rather than just absorbing it.
• People development. You have a track record of engineers growing under your leadership, ideally some of them moving on to bigger things.
• Comfort with unusual territory. Blockchain infrastructure has properties that don't map cleanly onto standard cloud operations. You don't need prior Web3 experience, but you shouldn't be put off by it either.
• Working at Parity