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Lightning Labs

Platform Engineer (Remote)

720 University Ave., Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94301, United States

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Location
720 University Ave., Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94301, United States
Work
Remote
Employment
Full-time
Level
Not stated
Function
Engineering
Pay
Not stated
Posted
54 months ago

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About the role

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

Roles:

  • 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:

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

Check out our Github repos at:

  • https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd
  • https://github.com/lightninglabs/lndinit
  • https://github.com/lightninglabs/lndmon
  • https://github.com/lightninglabs/aperture

Source

Posted by Lightning Labs on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 11:46 UTC; the original is the reference.

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