• Operating and evolving 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure. • Diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes (e.g., object storage latency, noisy neighbors, control-plane bottlenecks, query performance regressions, etc.). • Designing safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale. • Improving observability, automation, and operational ergonomics. • Partnering closely with database and platform teams to ensure safe scaling, partitioning, consumer fan-out, and query performance. • Working directly with distributed systems behavior, Kubernetes scheduling dynamics, storage engines, compression trade-offs, etc. • Serving as a primary escalation point and on-call for relevant incidents. • Owning the relationship with all system vendors, including WarpStream Labs and others.