What This Role Actually IsThis is a backend software engineering role on a platform team supporting the Data team. This team owns foundational services, infrastructure patterns, CI/CD, server-side rendering, cloud services, catalog services, and platform capabilities used by other engineering teams. Top Priorities1. Backend service ownership2. Node.js and TypeScript3. Database ownership and migrations4. Cloud experience (GCP preferred, AWS acceptable)5. Terraform and Infrastructure as Code6. CI/CD experience7. Migration and modernization initiatives8. Scalability and reliability mindset