Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience with coding in C/C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby, with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and software design.
8 years of experience in architecting, developing, and troubleshooting distributed systems, with concurrency, multithreading, and synchronization.
5 years of experience in leading projects, and providing technical leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience in collaborating across organizational boundaries, building relationships, and importing and exporting ideas to achieve organizational goals.
Experience in systems administration with UNIX/Linux and internals, IP networking, monitoring, and alerting.
Experience with resource management and capacity planning.
Ability to understand the relationship between the organization and its environment, identify connections, adopt different perspectives and respond to changing circumstances.
Excellent thinking, investigative, problem-solving, negotiation and organizational skills.
Excellent communication skills.

Engage in and improve the lifecycle of services from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement.
Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems.