Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, Python, C, C++, Rust acceptable) Some experience delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product Some experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering Some experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software Familiarity with observability systems Experience working with Kubernetes (bonus) Experience working with queue systems (bonus) User of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (bonus) Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems (bonus) Familiarity with infrastructure as code (bonus)