Lightning Infrastructure Engineer: Build Scalable Node Tools

Lightning Labs; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightning Labs seeks a systems-oriented engineer to design and build key components that will bootstrap and grow the Lightning Network. You will develop tooling for automated channel management (autopilot) and implement capital management algorithms to maximize efficiency.

You will design monitoring infrastructure for routing nodes, collect metrics to assess network health, and create systems to help nodes acquire and manage liquidity on the Lightning Network.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating secure, scalable, highly-available systems.
• Experience developing and supporting publicly available APIs.
• Familiarity contributing to open source projects preferred.
• Experience in systems programming languages such as Go, C or C++.
• Security and adversarially-oriented mindset.
• Knowledge of Bitcoin and applied cryptography; understanding of the Lightning Network protocol preferred.

Responsibilities

• Write advanced software tooling for automated channel management and initial client channel selection (autopilot).
• Implement algorithms for ongoing capital management and optimization (fee maximization and capital efficiency).
• 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 based on graph and node level signals.
• Design and build novel systems designed to help nodes/users acquire and manage liquidity on the Lightning Network.

Skills

Secure systems

APIs

Open source

Go

C

C++

Security mindset

Bitcoin knowledge

Tools

Go tooling

Job description

Lightning Labs seeks a systems-oriented engineer to design and build key components that will bootstrap and grow the Lightning Network. You will develop tooling for automated channel management (autopilot) and implement capital management algorithms to maximize efficiency.

You will design monitoring infrastructure for routing nodes, collect metrics to assess network health, and create systems to help nodes acquire and manage liquidity on the Lightning Network.