Experience operating production systems on bare metal or hybrid environments such as HPC or GPU clusters, optimised for performance and low latency Comfortable writing automation and systems tooling in Python, Go, or similar languages Understand container runtimes like Docker and containerd, and have built or worked with orchestration systems beyond Kubernetes Fluent in observability and debugging practices across distributed systems, using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling Deep care for reliability, efficiency, and engineering quality Ability to thrive in fast-moving, evolving environments