Full-Time
Lightning Infrastructure Engineer
Open-protocol & decentralized financial infrastructure
Crypto & Web3
Financial Services
Junior, Mid, Senior
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Required Skills
Data Structures & Algorithms
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
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
Lightning Labs' mission is to build an open protocol layer that leverages the power of blockchains and smart contracts to make cheap, fast, private transactions available to anyone around the world. The company is looking to bridge the world of open source software and the next-generation of bitcoin financial software with their open source, secure, and scalable network that enable users to send and receive money more efficiently than ever before.
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$131.5M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2016
Growth & Insights
Headcount