# Platform Engineer (Remote) at Lightning Labs

Platform Engineer (Remote) at Lightning Labs in Lightning Labs. Remote, full-time. Posted May 3, 2022.

- Company: Lightning Labs
- Location: Lightning Labs
- Workplace: Remote
- Job type: Full-time
- Posted: 2022-05-03
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightning/fde1d2b6-99e1-404a-b343-c35b2c40f9ae/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/platform-engineer-remote-lightning-labs-9bgjcd

## Description

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