5+ years of strong software engineering fundamentals with meaningful experience in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering. Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform (or other infrastructure-as-code frameworks), and modern observability tooling (Grafana, etc.). Solid understanding of distributed systems, reliability engineering principles, and cost optimization practices. Experience improving engineering workflows and operational maturity through tooling and process enhancements (CI/CD, monitoring, on-call, incident response, etc.). Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, or similar languages. 6+ years of strong software engineering fundamentals with meaningful experience in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering.