• At least 3 years of experience as a Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Backend Engineer building or maintaining production infrastructure, deployment systems, or core platform services.
• Experience shipping or maintaining production systems at scale and resolving incidents or outages.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or similar containerization and orchestration technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong backend language fundamentals in Python, Go, Node.js, Java, or a similar language, plus experience with databases and APIs.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools, as well as message queues or event streaming systems.
• Comfort working in an early-stage environment with changing priorities and communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.