Platform Engineer (Remote)

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• 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