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Every engineer is in shared Slack channels with users, triaging issues, gathering feedback, and shaping what we build next.\nWork on custom features directly with multi-billion-dollar enterprise customers\nMake our infrastructure that manages simulators, emulators, and browsers more reliable and scalable\nMake our agents faster and more reliable at navigating apps\nPut out fires. We joke that we're all professional firefighters (fun fact, one of our founding engineers was formerly an actual firefighter)\nWhat we look for\nHigh agency Code is easy to write now. What sets people apart is the ability to figure out what to build, navigate ambiguity, and drive things forward without being told. We want people who see a problem and own it end to end, from understanding the customer's pain to shipping the fix.\n\nTaste If \"taste\" were easy to put into words, it would probably be automated by now! 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