* Typically 5+ years of software engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering experience building and shipping production systems, with demonstrated ability to work independently and deliver complex projects with minimal guidance.
* Strong general software background, with real experience building, deploying, and operating production applications on cloud. You understand a professional software development lifecycle, including how applications are built, tested, released, and run in production. You understand what constitutes maintainable code.
* Solid experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including deploying and running production workloads.
* Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform), authoring reusable modules and infrastructure that other engineers depend on and build on top of.
* Experience with modern CI/CD, continuous testing, and deployment practices.
* Ability to work across a broad technical surface area, moving between infrastructure, application development, and platform work as priorities require.
* Depth in one or more of: CI/CD and build/release tooling, cloud networking, infrastructure-as-code, or developer platforms and shared engineering tooling, with working familiarity across the rest.
* A trusted technical contributor on your team who owns systems end to end, brings strong design judgment, and leads and mentors more junior engineers.
* Working knowledge of networking fundamentals (e.g. HTTP, ports, DNS, firewalls, security groups, cloud networking primitives) sufficient to build and troubleshoot connectivity between environments.
* Effective communication skills and the ability to work across teams to understand requirements and align on solutions.
* Comfortable operating with autonomy in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and the playbook is being written in real time. Able to work through ambiguity to define requirements and deliver results.
* US Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance.