Proactive in identifying tech debt, systemic issues, and areas for team/process improvement Expertise building and maintaining microservices in production in Kubernetes Understanding of Elasticsearch internals: sharding, performance tuning, analyzers, query DSL Elasticsearch certifications or other program stack related certifications Strong Kafka experience: event design, stream processing, performance tuning Familiarity with schema registries and Kafka streaming patterns Familiarity with authentication and authorization products such as Keycloak Experience with security best practices for services: authN/Z, secrets management, data protection GraphQL familiarity Hardware on-prem and cloud-based deployments using Kubernetes Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (ie CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi) Experience of a production/enterprise systems at scale Knowledge of distributed systems concepts (e.g., idempotency, eventual consistency) Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers Strong testing discipline with a focus on automation, coverage, and CI/CD pipelines Hands-on development and/or scripting experience, especially Java and Python Experience with AWS cloud-based architecture, services, and software development. Develop requirements and design documents Contribute to and review RFCs, and requirements, design, and architecture reviews Coordinate with Test Team to develop and monitor automated system integration tests to identify failed modules and components Manage individual project priorities, deliverables, and deadlines Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components Foster an environment of collaboration with the different team members in the goal of providing quality service and product to our customers Act as a mentor to mid-level and junior engineers, offering guidance on best practices and career growth.