• Strong backend or production-engineering background building and operating services at scale.
• Strong distributed-systems depth: API design, concurrency, fault tolerance, and how high-throughput services behave operationally.
• Experience with the infrastructure behind multi-tenant SaaS or API products, such as usage metering, billing, rate limiting, or authentication.
• Fluency in a backend or systems language such as Python, Go, or Rust, and comfort running services in the cloud.
• Strong ownership of reliability and correctness in production.
• WHAT SETS YOU APART
• Experience building usage metering or billing infrastructure for a consumption-priced product.
• Experience designing and shipping client SDKs that external developers rely on.
• LLM serving, inference APIs, or ML infrastructure experience.
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.