• Architect distributed systems that tolerate latency, bandwidth constraints, and intermittent connectivity • Design loosely coupled services that reduce cross-system fragility • Implement fault-tolerant communication and state synchronization strategies • Develop systems that prioritize correctness, durability, and recovery • Implement retry logic, backpressure, caching strategies, and eventual consistency patterns • Ensure systems degrade gracefully instead of failing catastrophically • Design and maintain APIs and communication layers between distributed components • Identify and reduce tight coupling across services • Diagnose and resolve cross-system failures in production environments • Write efficient, production-grade code in Rust or Go • Optimize performance and memory usage in resource-constrained environments • Debug network behavior, concurrency issues, and distributed coordination challenges