Responsibilities
- You take a capability from a rough idea all the way to production, and then you keep it alive and healthy there — meeting its latency and reliability targets, instrumented well enough to prove it, and hardened to survive real load and real failure.
- You own the outcome, not the ticket.
- You'll lead a functional area end to end: set its technical direction, make the calls that matter, and pull other engineers along with you.
Requirements
- Proven, demonstrable proficiency using AI as a force multiplier — you already operate as a 10x engineer, orchestrating AI tools and agents to design, build, and ship far beyond what you could alone, while keeping the judgment to know what 'correct' actually looks like.
- 5–7+ years building and operating production services and front ends, with real experience owning something end to end and carrying the weight of it once it's in front of real users.
- Hands-on experience with TLS / MITM inspection and the security-sensitive edge cases that come with sitting in the middle of live traffic.
- A real track record of taming latency in streaming and distributed systems — you've chased down p99 tail latency and know that 'fast on my machine' means nothing until it's fast in production, under load, with observability to back it up.
- Strong command of a modern backend language (Go, Rust, or TypeScript/Node) and React/TypeScript on the front end, with a deep working grasp of HTTP, TLS, gRPC/REST, and async/streaming I/O.
