- A strong engineering foundation – you've shipped production services and can hold your own in architecture reviews without being the day-to-day coder.
- Hands-on experience with event-driven microservices: Kafka, async event processing, and schema versioning.
- Backend architecture for large, high-scale web applications, including relational databases, distributed caching, and resilience patterns such as retries and dead-letter handling.
- Experience with AWS, and with TypeScript/Node.js backend services at scale (Go or Python a bonus).
- Comfort with Datadog or an equivalent for SLO definition, alerting, and incident triage.
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