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You’ll own problems from finding the bottleneck to shipping a solution and supporting it in production.\nWhat you’ll do\nBuild shared services for queues, job scheduling, caching, configuration, and service communication.\n\nImprove concurrency limits, resource allocation, and recovery for long-running media workloads.\n\nMake database access, migrations, and connection management safer and faster.\n\nSimplify service setup, testing, deployment, and production debugging.\n\nImprove observability, investigate incidents, and reduce infrastructure cost per completed job.\n\nWork directly with product engineers, ship focused improvements, and measure the results. 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