Lightning Infrastructure Engineer (Remote)

Lightning Labs, Remote. Posted 59 months ago

The role

A systems-oriented engineer will design and build key components to support the bootstrapping and growth of the Lightning Network. This includes building tools for automated channel management, liquidity provisioning, and network monitoring.

What you will do

Write advanced software tooling for automated channel management and initial client channel selection
Implement algorithms for ongoing capital management and optimization
Design and maintain a suite of monitoring and alert infrastructure for routing nodes
Develop and collect metrics to passively analyze the health of the network
Design and build novel systems to help nodes and users acquire and manage liquidity

Required qualifications

Experience building and operating secure, scalable, highly-available systems
Experience developing and supporting publicly available APIs
Experience in systems programming languages such as Go, C or C++
Security and adversarially-oriented mindset
Knowledge of Bitcoin and applied cryptography

Nice to have

Familiarity contributing to open source projects
Understanding of the Lightning Network protocol

About the company

The Lightning Network ecosystem includes core software and supporting systems like watchtowers, network monitoring, and liquidity provisioning tools.