Strong programming skills in Go, C, C++ or Python Comfortable with distributed systems Experience with Data pipelines, distributed processing, fault tolerance, performance optimization Experience with Message queues, event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Google pub/sub) Experience with Clouds: managed services, storage (GCP, AWS, Azure) Experience with testing code (Unit testing, Integration testing, Test performance optimization) Experience in container runtimes and Linux system programming (Plus) Experience with build tools and CI/CD pipelines (Plus) Experience with DevOps: Git, Docker, k8s, Terraform, baremetal Experience with Monitoring and alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)