Platform Engineer (Remote)

Company: Lightning Labs
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: April 2, 2026

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

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