Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Lightning Labs as a senior software engineer to improve developer experience by managing cloud and cluster technologies, stateful backend services, and observability tools.

Requirements

• 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)

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced cloud technologies: GitOps, DevSecOps, service mesh
• Database administration: postgresql, etcd
• Knowledge of Bitcoin and Lightning Network
• Familiarity contributing to open source projects