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Every run is real, paid compute. The platform ships to production continuously, and it has to stay working and available while it is being built. 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Many of our reliability fixes live in application code, and you'll write and review them. We're AI fans - if you can vibecode and automate your work - we'll support that.\n\nSolid infrastructure fundamentals: PostgreSQL, a job queue (arq, Celery, Sidekiq, Temporal or similar), Linux and containers, Terraform and GitHub Actions.\n\nBuilder mentality: You enjoy taking a fragile system and turning it into a dependable one, step by step, without stopping the business.\n\nStrong ownership and autonomy: You take responsibility for the things nobody else sees, because you see them. 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