Lightning Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a systems-oriented engineer to design and build key components for the Lightning Network ecosystem, including automated channel management, monitoring, and liquidity provisioning tools.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating secure, scalable, highly-available systems
• Experience developing and supporting publicly available APIs
• Familiarity contributing to open source projects preferred
• Experience in systems programming languages such as Go, C or C++
• Security and adversarially-oriented mindset
• Knowledge of Bitcoin and applied cryptography; understanding of the Lightning Network protocol preferred

Responsibilities

• Write advanced software tooling for automated channel management and initial client channel selection (autopilot)
• Implement algorithms for ongoing capital management and optimization (fee maximization and capital efficiency)
• Design and maintain a suite of monitoring and alert infrastructure for routing nodes
• Develop and collect metrics to passively analyze the health of the network based on graph and node level signals
• Design and build novel systems designed to help nodes/users acquire and manage liquidity on the Lightning Network