General coding competency Familiarity with Python Backend engineering skills (SQL, REST APIs, data storage) Technical reasoning (systems thinking, evaluating trade-offs) Communication skills (written and verbal) Kindness and teamwork Ability to wear many hats across the tech stack Experience with data engineering (ETL, SQL, data pipelines) Experience with machine learning engineering (TensorFlow, Apache Beam) Experience with DevOps (GCP/AWS, k8s, Terraform) Experience with web development (HTML/CSS/JS, Flask)