Platform Engineer: DevOps for Scalable Cloud & Kubernetes

Lightning Labs; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightning Labs is seeking a pragmatic senior software engineer who embraces the DevOps mindset to improve our developer experience. You will help manage the cloud, clusters, and stateful services in our internal platform while collaborating with product teams to ship secure and reliable software.

Ideal candidates bring strong Linux/networking skills, production Kubernetes experience, and proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust.

Qualifications

• Strong foundations in Linux, networking, security, cloud and IaC.
• Experience managing and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Experience operating observability tools (logging/metrics/tracing).
• Experience in a systems programming language (Go, Python, Rust, etc).
• Preferred: GitOps, DevSecOps, service mesh.
• Database administration: PostgreSQL, etcd.
• Knowledge of Bitcoin and Lightning Network.
• Familiarity contributing to open source projects.

Responsibilities

• 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

Linux basics

Networking

Security

Cloud

IaC

Kubernetes

Observability

Go

Python

Rust

GitOps

DevSecOps

Service mesh

PostgreSQL

etcd

Bitcoin/LN

Open source

Tools

Helm

Kubernetes

Job description

Lightning Labs is seeking a pragmatic senior software engineer who embraces the DevOps mindset to improve our developer experience. You will help manage the cloud, clusters, and stateful services in our internal platform while collaborating with product teams to ship secure and reliable software.

Ideal candidates bring strong Linux/networking skills, production Kubernetes experience, and proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust.