8-10+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineering, with a proven track record of operating at a Staff level. History of mentoring other senior engineers, influencing technical direction across multiple teams, and leading large-scale projects to completion. Deep expertise in languages like Node.js or Go and a history of building and maintaining critical automation and services. Expert-level, architectural understanding of Kubernetes (EKS preferred), including networking, custom controllers, and control plane optimization. Terraform expert who has designed and implemented large-scale, reusable, and secure IaC frameworks. Designed and implemented observability strategies from the ground up, leveraging platforms like Datadog to create actionable SLOs and provide deep system insight. Designed, built, and scaled complex CI/CD systems (ideally with GitHub Actions and self-hosted runners) that are used by an entire engineering organization. Can decompose highly ambiguous, complex, cross-functional problems into solvable parts and lead the technical solution from concept to production.