8+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership or engineering management role within Platform or Infrastructure vendor ideally early stage. - Strong systems engineering background — experience with containerization, orchestration (Kubernetes), and cloud infrastructure
Hands-on experience building and operating production-grade backend services and APIs (within infrastructure or Platform product). - Proficiency in at least one of: TypeScript, Python, Elixir, Go, or Rust
Must have experience distributed systems and ideally dedicated endpoint and container orchestration. - Demonstrated ability to lead and grow high-performing engineering teams (4–10 people)
Strong project management skills — comfortable driving execution through tools like Linear, Jira, or similar
Excellent communication skills — able to translate between technical depth and business context
Preferred
Experience with container isolation technologies (gVisor, Firecracker, Kata Containers) or secure execution environments
Experience building developer-facing products: SDKs, APIs, developer tooling, or infrastructure platforms
Familiarity with AI/ML workflows — code execution, agentic systems, or reinforcement learning environments
Experience in a high-growth startup environment where you've had to balance building new features with maintaining reliability
Track record of hiring and onboarding engineers successfull