Experience building API back-ends serving large numbers of users or high volume of requests Experience deploying on Enterprise single-tenant environments is a plus 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 cloud managed services and storage (GCP, AWS, Azure) Experience with developer experience tools Experience with CI/CD pipelines Experience with containerization in production environments Experience with testing code (unit, integration, performance optimization) Experience in Go, Ruby or Python Experience with DevOps tools (Git, Docker, k8s, Terraform) Experience with monitoring and alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)