Platform Engineer (remote)

Lightning Labs is seeking a pragmatic senior software engineer who embraces the DevOps mindset to improve our developer experience.

Roles:

• Manage the underlying cloud and cluster technologies that compose our internal platform

• Manage stateful backend services such as databases and Bitcoin/LN nodes

• Utilize, operate, and extend observability tools (logging/monitoring/tracing)

• Improve robustness & security of our platform using enhancements like operators and overlay networks

• Advise/assist dev teams with integrations, such as Helm charts, cloud resources, and the k8s lifecycle

Skills:

• Strong foundations in Linux, networking, security, cloud, and IaC

• Managing and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters in production

• Operating and extending observability tools (logging/metrics/tracing)

• Experience in a systems programming language (Go, Python, Rust, etc)

• Preferred

  - Advanced cloud technologies: GitOps, DevSecOps, service mesh

  - Database administration: postgresql, etcd

  - Knowledge of Bitcoin and Lightning Network

  - Familiarity contributing to open source projects

Check out our Github repos at:

• https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd

• https://github.com/lightninglabs/lndinit

• https://github.com/lightninglabs/lndmon

• https://github.com/lightninglabs/aperture