Why I stayed for the hard problems

Employee: Priya Nandakumar

Role: Senior Backend Engineer

Team: Platform Engineering

Location: Austin, US

Tenure: 3 years

Published: 2026-03-14

“I get to work on systems that actually matter at scale — when I joined I was skeptical "distributed systems" wasn't just a buzzword here, but the order-fulfilment rewrite was the real thing. Nobody hands you a toy problem.”