noriah

Senior/Staff Systems Engineer in Portland with 15+ years of experience in backend and infrastructure, seeking remote-first work in reliability, automation, and distributed systems.

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Remote Portland senior 15 years experience

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GoCPythonJavaSQLNoSQLGrafanaPubSubContainersKubernetesGCPAWSDBAIaCCI/CDJavaScriptHadoop/YarnSparkDevOpsITreverse engineeringnetworkingdistributed systemsautomationreliabilitybackend developmentinfrastructure

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backend infrastructure devops distributed systems reliability networking platform engineering

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  Location: Portland, OR, USA
  Remote: Yes, Preferred
  Willing to relocate: Yes, however only if very persuasive or temporarily for onboarding
  Technologies: Go, C, Python, Java, SQL, NoSQL, Grafana, PubSub, Containers, K8s, GCP, AWS, DBA, IaC, CI/CD, JavaScript, Hadoop/Yarn, Spark, DevOps, IT
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E5ADLM6eZre_X9-rI4uKGyHs_iaOEC-N/view?usp=sharing
  Email: vix [at] noriah [dot] dev
  LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/noriah
  GitHub: https://github.com/noriah

Senior/Staff Systems Engineer with a thirst for complex problems and 15+ years of experience. Comfortable with backend/infra development and user-facing systems.
- Specialties in reliability, automation, and reverse engineering.
- Small-scale to global-scale infrastructure, networking, distributed systems, and software.
- Skillful at building infrastructure and services from scratch.
- Excel at making flakey services solid as a rock.
- Experience with PoP buildout and maintenance for global networks and heavy workloads.
- Even a little robotics and some fabrication on the side.
Lets talk, I want to work hard to make you and your systems happy!

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