Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, Python, C, C++, Rust translates well) Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering Some experience running complex distributed systems at scale Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others Experience working with Kubernetes Experience running kafka at scale Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code