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We’re looking for someone who understands the systems underneath the tooling, can make sound architectural decisions, and enjoys improving how engineers build, deploy, and operate software.\nKey challenges you will work on every day:\nDesign and evolve our cloud platform with scalability, reliability, security, and multi-region operation in mind\nOwn and improve Kubernetes environments, including cluster architecture, networking, workloads, scaling, reliability, and operational patterns\nImprove the developer experience from local development through CI/CD to production\nDesign and optimize network topology for connectivity, latency, throughput, and resilience\nBuild and evolve observability that provides meaningful insights for engineering and operations rather than simply generating alerts\nSupport and improve infrastructure around stateful and distributed systems\nWork closely with software engineers on infrastructure and architecture decisions instead of treating infrastructure as a separate operational layer\nExplore and adopt AI-powered engineering tools where they can meaningfully improve platform engineering and operational workflows\nParticipate in a shared fair on-call rotation, with a focus on sustainable operations, low alert noise, automation, and continuous reliability improvements\nMost of this applies to you:\nStrong hands-on experience designing and operating production cloud infrastructure; 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