3+ years of experience as a people manager of software, platform, or infrastructure engineers, plus 5+ years of overall software engineering experience.
**Working knowledge of cloud-native architecture** : Kubernetes, managed cloud services, networking, and multi-tenancy patterns across AWS, GCP, or Azure, sufficient to engage credibly in technical discussions.
**Proven ability to lead a team through complex, multi-month platform initiatives** —driven from whiteboard to production, managing ambiguity and risk throughout.
**Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure** : model serving, inference pipelines, agentic solution or LLM integration patterns.
Experience setting and upholding engineering standards (code quality, on-call practices, operational excellence) across a team.
Bachelors degree in a computer science, engineering or similar discipline.