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