A track record of leading teams in scale/start-ups that went from ‘0 to 1’ and released their first products Exceptional leadership, communication, and drive - particularly when under pressure Experience attracting and hiring world-class engineers Hands on engineering experience in (at least) 1 of the following 3 domains: Infrastructure/Platform Engineering, Security Engineering, or SRE/DevOps Experience scaling distributed systems or high-load infrastructure (Preferred) Strong security engineering background (threat modeling, reviews, audits) (Preferred) Deep hands-on DevOps expertise (Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD) (Preferred)