skills and experience with both synchronous and asynchronous service communication (REST, gRPC, Kafka). Hands-on experience with cloud-native environments and workload management tools (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, or similar). Experience designing observability for distributed systems (metrics, logs, traces) with tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana. Experience leading architectural decisions across multiple engineering teams, writing design documents, and bridging between product, business, and engineering. Strong hands-on experience with AI coding agents, with the ability to design, drive, and enhance AI-assisted development workflows across engineering teams.
