• 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure, Platform, or Backend Engineering roles.
• Strong systems fundamentals: deep understanding of Linux, networking, storage, and distributed systems.
• Proven expertise with Kubernetes, VMs, or bare-metal environments.
• Advanced software engineering skills; capable of building production-grade APIs and services (Python, Go, or similar).
• Extensive experience with infrastructure as code and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and distill complex problems into clear, maintainable abstractions.
• Product-focused mindset: care about interfaces, defaults, reliability, and sustainable operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; effective collaborator across engineering and product functions.
• Hands-on experience with GPU or AI infrastructure.
• Experience with control-plane or orchestration systems.
• Background spanning both infrastructure and application/backend engineering.
• Experience architecting multi-tenant systems.
• Strong skills in technical writing and design documentation.