Staff Engineer, AvalancheGo

The role

You will maintain and advance the AvalancheGo software and its environments. You will serve as a technical anchor for the node domain, including consensus, peer-to-peer networking, and state sync.

What you will do

• Maintain and advance the software powering the Avalanche network
• Manage contributions from the team and the community
• Set and enforce engineering standards
• Design, build, and advance critical systems like consensus and networking
• Establish observability standards and define SLOs for node performance
• Own the engineering lifecycle for network-critical code
• Mentor senior engineers
• Write ADRs, release notes, and technical communications
• Drive protocol direction through the ACP process

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years operating at a staff/lead level
• Expert-level Go including concurrency, profiling, and performance tuning
• Significant open source experience as a maintainer or core contributor
• Production experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
• Strong testing discipline across the testing pyramid
• Experience with release engineering for self-hosted software
• Working fluency with Linux-based infrastructure, containerization, and observability tooling
• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience

Nice to have

• GitHub profile

About the company

Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. The company was founded by Cornell computer scientists and partners with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders.