Platform Engineer (Remote)

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

See the posting on Lightning's site