8+ years of experience building and scaling high-performance distributed systems in production environments 8+ years of hands on expertise with Kubernetes, Kafka/Kinesis, and Terraform for cloud-native infrastructure Strong background in systems programming with Golang and C++ Deep understanding of networking fundamentals Comfortable driving cloud agnostic infrastructure strategies across GCP and AWS Background in building real time event driven systems for consumer-facing products Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integrating advanced testing frameworks Experience supporting ML infrastructure or data platforms at scale Familiarity with large-scale Terraform module design and multi-team infrastructure enablement