Set the technical vision and architecture.

Own the multi-year architecture and roadmap for Optimize's streaming, batch and serving systems.

Decide what to build, buy, consolidate or retire, and make the trade-offs between freshness, correctness and cost explicit.

Write the tech strategy docs and lead the design reviews that set direction across the team.

Be accountable for data correctness and reliability at scale.

Define the standards for handling late and out-of-order data, backfills, replays and data-quality validation.

Define the SLOs and the loss/lag alerting (late-drop rate, consumer lag, input-vs-output gaps) that creators' trust depends on.

Lead response to the most serious data incidents, drive blameless postmortems, and make sure the fixes stop the whole class of failure, not just the one instance.

Take part in the team's PagerDuty on-call rotation.

Lead performance, scale and cost.

Own capacity planning and load testing for seasonal peaks across the pipelines.

Lead deep performance work on Kafka partitioning, Flink parallelism, state and checkpointing, and Druid/StarRocks ingestion and query serving.

Principal Software Engineer, Creator Analytics

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