5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production software. Deep experience in a systems language such as Go, Rust, Java, or C/C++ Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, networking, TLS/mTLS, proxying, load balancing, etc. Demonstrated ability to design and build for scale. Hands-on experience with observability tooling: metrics, tracing, logs. Strong sense of developer experience. Skilled at navigating ambiguity, trade-offs, and technical risk. Excellent collaborating skills. Experience mentoring and elevating the work of others.