Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Ava Labs' Developer Infrastructure team as a versatile engineer to enhance code quality and speed. You will support and develop a CI/CD pipeline, create systems for Avalanche node networks, build an observability solution, and perform chaos engineering. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for code quality, performance, and collaboration, along with experience in infrastructure, testing, and observability. You will work with a global team of experts in a fast-paced, innovative Web3 environment. Ava Labs offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to be a pioneer in a transformative technology.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience programming computers
• 2+ years of experience with GoLang and/or Rust
• 4+ year of experience working with others on a large codebase
• Experience with git workflows, including building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions (preferred), Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI
• Have written end-to-end tests for sizable systems
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-code
• Experience with large-scale observability
• Experience using data to drive performance optimization
• Experience with any flavor of Unix system programming, and/or large-scale orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes, and containers

Responsibilities

• Support and develop a CI/CD pipeline (currently based on Github Actions) that you will transform into a comprehensive and fast guarantee of code quality, using unit tests, end-to-end tests, and performance tests
• Create systems that stand-up networks of Avalanche nodes, data nodes, monitoring infrastructure;  on-demand and with ad-hoc configurations, on multiple computing substrates (e.g, as processes on a laptop or globally distributed on multiple Kubernetes clusters)
• Create systems to manage several, or perhaps many, ad-hoc Avalanche networks, many of which may be ephemeral
• Build an observability solution that collects data from those diverse environments, and is able to compare coherently across runs/versions to reveal regressions and highlight improvements
• Evolve observability so that it can be used to identify specific bottlenecks and drive strategy focus for the larger team, e.g, selectively collect traces and analyze them with varying degrees of automation
• Fuzz code, and network behavior (chaos engineering), to continually increase confidence on the correctness and resilience of our consensus algorithms and p2p protocols

Preferred Qualifications

• You create and find projects that provide value. You don’t need to wait for someone to tell you what to work on.  You know there are things you don’t know, so you listen, and understand, but this does not stop you from proposing and prototyping ideas.  We hire awesome engineers to tell us what we should build
• You have an obsession with code quality and performance. You ship code when it is ready, not as soon as it passes unit tests.  Yet, you understand value does not come purely from technical merit
• You do not think you are always in possession of the truth.  You thrive in an environment rich in constraints in addition to opportunities
• You enjoy working with others, learning from others, and developing others
• You are curious about (or fully invested on!) web3 and blockchains, and the value that distributed ledgers might bring to all sorts of economic activity

Benefits

Salary Range: $214,990 to $228,427