- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with ownership of complex production systems.
- Strong full-stack experience, including production React applications and distributed backend services.
- Experience working across TypeScript, Python, Go, and Java languages and codebases.
- Experience with using AI coding agents (Claude, Cursor) to develop code.
- Experience with AI Eval platforms and tools is a plus.
- Strong AWS experience with EKS, EC2, S3, VPC networking, and infrastructure as code using CDK or CloudFormation.
- Applied AI engineering - hands-on experience building or evaluating LLM-powered or agentic applications using Claude Agent SDK, LangGraph, LangChain, or comparable frameworks.
- Experience with websockets, streaming systems, and real-time user experiences.
- Production Kubernetes experience, ideally including CRDs, custom controllers or operators, Helm, and GitOps.
- Strong production observability and operational ownership, including logs, metrics, alarms, incident response, and reliability improvements.
- Experience building active-active or active-passive architectures is a plus
- Ability to learn new systems quickly and work effectively through ambiguity.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.