Experience leading deployment tooling, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering teams operating at scale. Strong technical background with practical knowledge of Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts for stateful applications, and upgrade orchestration patterns. Solid understanding of cloud-native deployment architectures, database lifecycle management for stateful systems such as PostgreSQL, schema migrations, and zero-downtime upgrade strategies. Experience running and supporting consumer-scale or enterprise-scale platforms. Ability to investigate complex deployment and operational issues and communicate tradeoffs and findings clearly. Demonstrated experience building and supporting high-performing, distributed teams, including managing in an all-remote, asynchronous environment. Effective collaborator who works closely with cross-functional teams.