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Lightning LabsLightning LabsPalo Alto, CA

Lightning Infrastructure Engineer (Remote)

Designs and builds infrastructure tools for Lightning Network including automated channel management, liquidity optimization algorithms, monitoring systems, and network health metrics. Requires systems programming expertise in Go/C/C++, Bitcoin knowledge, and secure scalable systems experience.

Salary not listed
RemoteDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Write advanced software tooling for automated channel management and initial client channel selection (autopilot)
  • Implement algorithms for ongoing capital management and optimization (fee maximization and capital efficiency)
  • Design and maintain a suite of monitoring and alert infrastructure for routing nodes
  • Develop and collect metrics to passively analyze the health of the network based on graph and node level signals
  • Design and build novel systems designed to help nodes/users acquire and manage liquidity on the Lightning Network

Skills & Requirements

  • Experience building and operating secure, scalable, highly-available systems
  • Experience developing and supporting publicly available APIs
  • Familiarity contributing to open source projects (preferred)
  • Experience in systems programming languages such as Go, C, or C++
  • Security and adversarially-oriented mindset
  • Knowledge of Bitcoin and applied cryptography; understanding of the Lightning Network protocol (preferred)

Skills

GoCC++BitcoinLightning NetworkAPIsCryptographyOpen SourceMonitoringSystems Programming

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