Platform Engineer (Remote)

Lightning Labs

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Lightning Labs remote Until 8/22/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted March 21, 2025 Last posted March 21, 2025
Job 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

About this role

Summary

Manage cloud, Kubernetes, observability, and backend services; improve platform security and robustness.

Job title

Platform Engineer

Experience level

senior level

Industry

software

Location requirements

remote work allowed, based in Lightning Labs

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

linuxnetworkingsecuritycloudIaCkubernetesloggingmetricstracinggopythonrust

Preferred skills

cloud technologiesgitopsdevsecopsservice meshpostgresqletcdbitcoinlightning networkopen source

Specializations

cloudkubernetesobservabilitysystems programmingbitcoin
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

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Remote