• Deep experience designing, building, and operating production API platforms that customers depend on
• Strong distributed-systems fundamentals: stateless and stateful services, routing, queueing, autoscaling, multi-tenancy, fault tolerance
• A track record of owning architecture for a system at scale
• The judgment to know which architectural decisions are reversible and which are not
• Hands-on, with a bias for action. You want to build, not just direct, and an early-stage environment where you set the foundations is what you're after
• Comfort with ambiguity and a strong sense of ownership. You'll make consequential calls without complete information
• WHAT SETS YOU APART
• Experience with multi-tenant systems where data separation between customers is a hard requirement
• Familiarity with high-throughput inference or agent workloads, and a feel for how different workload types place different demands on the infrastructure around them
• Experience running production API infrastructure that meets high-assurance standards
• Open-source contributions to relevant infrastructure, or production systems whose scale and complexity you can speak to in detail
• Early-stage and AI-native company experience