• End-to-end responsibility for Database (Postgres, MongoDB) and data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake) integrations, including CDC, initial snapshots, schema evolution, backfills, and correctness at scale. • Recruit, coach, and develop a high-bar team; set crisp expectations and foster a culture of ownership, speed, and continuous improvement. • Jump into designs and code for complex flows (WAL/binlog/oplog handling, LSN/GTID management, idempotency/exactly-once behaviors, backpressure). • Mentor and coach your team — provide regular feedback, create growth opportunities, and support advancement in technical and leadership skills. • Build the culture of operational excellence: Own SLOs, reliability, on-call quality, and cost-efficiency for k8s-hosted, multi-tenant services across cloud regions. • Systematize support, reduce toil, and build self-serve/auto-healing capabilities. • Shape the product vision, transform it into the roadmap, sequence bets for business impact, and ship fast with tight feedback loops. • Inspire blog posts, guides, and talks; present at meetups/conferences to showcase work and lessons learned. • Join key customer calls, turn feedback into roadmap and fixes, and make upgrades/migrations predictable and safe.