Posted 49 months ago
Platform Engineer (Remote)
AI Summary
Senior software engineer focused on DevOps for an internal platform, managing cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, and backend stateful services including databases and Bitcoin/Lightning Network nodes.
About this 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
