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As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer on the Kubernetes team, you will lead the design, development, and operation of cloud-native platform components with a focus on reliability, networking, security, and observability at scale. Your day-to-day responsibilities include driving end-to-end architecture for large-scale distributed systems supporting globally deployed services, ensuring strong performance, resilience, diagnosability, and cost efficiency. You will provide technical leadership in Kubernetes-based infrastructure, including service-to-service communication, traffic management, and resiliency patterns while partnering across engineering teams to define and execute on cross-organizational technical strategy. Key skills include hands-on experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes internals, advanced networking, and proficiency in languages such as C++, Java, or Python. You will contribute to the development of AI-enabled capabilities and coach engineers to foster technical growth and raise quality standards across the organization.