Strong Go experience Track record of distributed systems and API design Experience with data systems (PostgreSQL, Redis) Deep Linux and cloud platform expertise Experience building developer tools/platforms Strong systems and networking foundation Familiarity with Notion, Slack, Excel, Google Sheets, Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub, VS Code, Cursor, Grafana, Prometheus, CI/CD practices, API design (REST, gRPC) Backend Systems: Go, gRPC/Connect, PostgreSQL, Redis, Git, Linux, Some frontend exposure (React, TypeScript helpful) Infrastructure: Linux, Git, AWS (primary), some GCP/Azure, Go, Infrastructure automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform), Container technologies