Lightspark

Lead Lightning Network Infrastructure Engineer

Lightspark

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $240,000 - $280,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSDistributed SystemsDockerGoGrafanaGraphQLJavaKotlinKubernetesPostgresPrometheusPythonRedisRustScalaSparkTerraformThrift

About the role

  • Designing, building, and scaling production services in Python, Go, and Rust
  • Debugging production issues and supporting customers in their integration of the company's services
  • Creating long term strategies and tooling to improve the stability, debuggability, monitoring, and support for company’s services and customers
  • Implementing new features of the Lightning Protocol to keep the company’s services at the cutting edge of the Lightning Network
  • Learning and sharing knowledge around the Lightning Network, Bitcoin Network, and other blockchains to contribute to the company’s highly collaborative environment
  • Collaborating with the Lightning network and Bitcoin communities to make core protocol improvements
  • Leading and mentoring a local team of Lightning Engineers and acting as a technical leader to ensure platform integrity and promote good practices
  • Building frameworks to collect and deeply analyze Lightning data for solution improvement

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering
  • 7 years of experience in Software Engineering or related occupation
  • 7 years of experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining API services and distributed systems using GraphQL, REST, Thrift, Manhattan, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Memcached
  • 7 years of experience working with engineering and product leadership teams to help drive technical strategy and roadmaps by identifying problems, ideating solutions, formulating milestones and delivery dates
  • 7 years of experience mentoring engineers by providing specific, actionable feedback, performing code reviews, reviewing design documents, and helping break down projects
  • 5 years of experience developing novel engineering solutions using Go and Rust, Python, Scala, Java, and Kotlin
  • 2 years of experience working with AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Docker
  • 2 years of experience configuring deployments using Helm and Terraform, while implementing monitoring and alerting best practices using Prometheus and Grafana
  • Experience implementing and working with the Lightning Protocol, Lightning Network, and Bitcoin Network
  • Experience leading and mentoring a local team of Lightning Engineers
  • Ability or willingness to work onsite in Culver City/Los Angeles area and authorization to work in the United States