# Lightning Infrastructure Engineer (Remote)

**Company:** [Lightning Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lightning-labs)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Skills:** Go, C, C++, Bitcoin, Lightning Network, APIs, Cryptography, Open Source, Monitoring, Systems Programming
**Posted:** 2021-12-16

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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)

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