Staff Engineer, AvalancheGo

Ava Labs

Staff Engineer maintaining AvalancheGo, the node software powering Ava Labs’ Avalanche Web3 blockchain. Owning protocol-critical systems, releases, reliability, and open-source engineering standards.

Posted 8/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $253,479 - $316,849 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expert-level proficiency in Go programming, with a strong focus on distributed systems, consensus mechanisms, and P2P networking. Proven ability to lead engineering teams, enforce production-quality standards, and engage with open source communities.

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Expert-Level Go ProgrammingDistributed Systems DesignP2P Networking ExperienceOpen Source ContributionCI/CD Implementation

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Hard Skills

Go ProgrammingDistributed SystemsConsensus MechanismsState SynchronizationTesting DisciplineVersioningBackward CompatibilityNetwork UpgradesCode ReviewTechnical Documentation

Soft Skills

MentoringCommunity EngagementTechnical Communication

Tools & Technologies

Linux-Based InfrastructureDockerKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaGitHub Actions

Certifications & Qualifications

BS in Computer Science

Industry Keywords

Open SourceProduction-Quality EngineeringNode Performance SLOsIncident ReviewsAvalanche Network

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsDockerGoGrafanaKubernetesLinuxNode.jsOpen SourcePrometheus

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Maintain and advance AvalancheGo, the software powering the Avalanche network, and manage team and community contributions.
Hold the merge bar for network-critical code and steward backward compatibility for node operators and downstream Avalanche L1 builders.
Define and enforce production-quality engineering standards.
Design, build, and advance consensus, P2P networking, state management and synchronization, the VM interface, and EVM integrations.
Establish observability standards, define node-performance SLOs, and lead incident reviews and postmortems.
Own versioning, upgrade coordination, backward compatibility, staged rollouts, and testing quality for network-critical code.
Mentor senior engineers, run design reviews, and spread technical context across the team.
Write ADRs, release notes, and technical communications; engage external contributors.
Originate and champion Avalanche Community Proposals and guide AvalancheGo’s readiness for protocol upgrades.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years at staff/lead level or equivalent scope
Expert-level Go, including goroutines, channels, race detector, pprof, benchmarking, dependency management, and idiomatic API design
Significant open source experience as a maintainer or sustained core contributor on a widely used project
Public record of code reviews, RFCs/design documents, and community engagement
Production experience designing, shipping, and operating distributed systems at scale
Experience with consensus or replication, P2P networking, state synchronization, or comparable high-availability systems
Strong testing discipline across unit, property-based/fuzz, integration, and end-to-end network testing
Experience building CI that enforces testing standards; GitHub Actions preferred
Experience with semantic versioning, backward compatibility, migration paths, and coordinated network upgrades
Working fluency with Linux-based infrastructure, Docker/Kubernetes, and observability tooling such as Prometheus/Grafana
BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Token and Equity Package
Remote (Global) work arrangement
Global team environment
Equal Opportunity Employer