Familiarity with relevant cloud and platform technologies, including AWS, Kinesis, Kafka, Pub/Sub equivalents, queues, event buses, AWS Step Functions, Temporal, Airflow, S3, Delta Lake, Parquet, RDS, DynamoDB, observability tools, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, or cloud cost optimization. Experience designing or operating event-driven pipelines, orchestration workflows, distributed storage systems, Lakehouse architectures, scalable microservices, APIs, or multi-tenant data access patterns.