
Posted 4 months ago
Platform Engineer (Remote)
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A senior software engineer with a DevOps focus manages the internal developer platform, stateful backend services, and observability tooling to improve reliability, security, and developer experience.
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
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