Platform Engineer (Remote)

The role

This person will manage underlying cloud and cluster technologies for the internal platform. They will manage stateful backend services and improve platform robustness and security.

What you will do

• 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

Required qualifications

• 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)

Nice to have

• Advanced cloud technologies: GitOps, DevSecOps, service mesh
• Database administration: postgresql, etcd
• Knowledge of Bitcoin and Lightning Network
• Familiarity contributing to open source projects

About the company

Lightning Labs is seeking a pragmatic senior software engineer who embraces the DevOps mindset to improve our developer experience.