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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

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