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We encourage you to apply if you possess a strong foundation in product ownership and a willingness to learn and grow. \nHave 4-6+ years of experience in backend or infra-focused engineering roles (e.g., SRE, platform, DevOps, or fullstack), with at least 2 years owning production systems at scale.\nCan confidently write or review production-grade code and infra-as-code (Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, etc.).\nDeep hands-on Kubernetes experience in production, ideally GKE, including autoscaling, ingress/gateway strategies and network policies.\nSolid GCP fundamentals (IAM, VPC design, Workload Identity, Secret Manager, CloudSQL performance characteristics) and working experience with at least one major cloud (AWS or Azure or GCP).\nThink in systems: you understand cascading failure, timeout boundaries, dependency health, and blast radius.\nRegularly contribute to incident mitigation or long-term fixes (not just closing alerts).\nCan influence through well-written PRs, documentation, and thoughtful design reviews.\nHands-on experience with Cloudflare or a comparable edge/CDN/WAF platform.\nNice to have: \nExperience with Kargo or similar progressive promotion tooling (Argo Rollouts, Flagger).Experience developing or integrating Kubernetes operators.\nFamiliarity with service-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and structured alerting.\nBuilding or integrating Kubernetes operators and CRDs.\nTools & Expectations:\nDatadog - Monitor infrastructure health, capture service-level metrics, reduce alert fatigue through high signal thresholds.\nPagerDuty - Own incident management pipeline. 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