About the role
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
About Lightning Labs
Lightning Labs is building the next generation of decentralized, resilient financial infrastructure. We believe systems based on cryptography, blockchains, and smart contracts will enhance financial cooperation around the world in unprecedented ways at scales both large and small.
At Lightning Labs, we develop software that powers the Lightning Network. Our open source, secure, and scalable Lightning systems enable users to send and receive money more efficiently than ever before. We also offer a series of verifiable, non-custodial Lightning-based financial services. We bridge the world of open source software and the next generation of Bitcoin financial software.
We have developed Lightning Network Daemon (LND), the most advanced and most developer-friendly implementation of the Lightning Network protocol. Along with Neutrino, an open platform that enables users with mobile devices to conduct blockchain and Lightning Network transactions quickly and easily.
We’re hiring. See our open positions: http://lightning.engineering/careers.html. Get involved: http://dev.lightning.community/.
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Job details
Location
San Francisco, CA
Funding
Total raised
$82.5M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
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