Platform Engineer (Remote)
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- Full-time
- Remote from United States
- Work permit not stated
Remote Platform Engineer role at Lightning Labs for a senior engineer with a DevOps mindset, managing Kubernetes clusters, stateful services (databases, Bitcoin/LN nodes) and observability tools.
Core requirements: Linux, networking, security, cloud, IaC, and production Kubernetes experience, plus a systems language such as Go, Python or Rust.
Can I apply? The posting does not state eligible countries, work authorization, or pay; the ATS country hint is US but is not confirmed in the description.
From the posting
- workplace
ATS workplace type: remote
- remote eligible countries
ATS location: Lightning Labs
- locations
ATS location: Lightning Labs
- employment types
full_time
- seniority
pragmatic senior software engineer
- job function
Lightning Labs is seeking a pragmatic senior software engineer who embraces the DevOps mindset
- role family
Manage the underlying cloud and cluster technologies that compose our internal platform
- skills
Strong foundations in Linux, networking, security, cloud, and IaC
- skills
Managing and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters in production
- skills
Experience in a systems programming language (Go, Python, Rust, etc)
- actionable
Manage stateful backend services such as databases and Bitcoin/LN nodes
Job description
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
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