Highly proficient in Python 3.10+ Experienced in building large, production-grade backend systems Experience with data ingestion pipelines, REST APIs, event/log processing, or message queues Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch / Kibana, or similar search/analytics platforms Comfortable working with MongoDB and ideally have experience with MongoEngine Understand or have worked with SOC, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, or incident response tooling Can integrate with third-party APIs and manage auth, throttling, error handling, retries, and async patterns Experience working in or extending a large existing codebase (~50K lines) Familiarity with workflow/orchestration engines Comfortable using AI coding tools