5+ years working with streaming/data technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, Spark Structured Streaming, or similar.
Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, event driven architectures, and cloud native architectures.
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Java, Python) and strong SQL skills, with comfort writing production quality code, samples, and utilities.
5+ years of hands on experience with Kubernetes (K8s), plus Docker and other container platforms, for deploying and managing applications.
Experience working directly with customers, sales, or solution teams (e.g., as a technical marketer, solutions architect, developer advocate, or sales engineer).
Experience with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Iceberg, data infrastructure, data architecture, cloud services, and/or distributed systems
Experience marketing technical infrastructure, developer tools, data platforms, or distributed systems
Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, stream processing, or real-time analytics
Experience using funnel analytics, experimentation, or customer and product data to diagnose and improve GTM performance
Experience shaping messaging for an emerging category or independently driving ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives