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You'll lead a team of 2 SREs and partner closely with product engineering, security, and our compliance partners to make sure what we build runs the way our customers (and the IRS) expect.\nThis is a hands-on lead role. You'll set the technical direction for our cloud platform, deployment pipelines, observability, and on-call practices - and you'll write the code, configs, and runbooks that get us there. 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