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Brief #71083Updated 23 AUG 2026LIGHTNING LABSAshbySOFTWARE COMPANIES
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Platform Engineer (Remote)

Lightning Labs is building the next generation of decentralized, resilient financial infrastructure. We believe systems based on cryptography, blockchains, and smart contracts will enhance financial cooperation around…

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Platform Engineer (Remote)

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Job title
Platform Engineer (Remote)
Job location
Lightning Labs
Job listing URL
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightning/fde1d2b6-99e1-404a-b343-c35b2c40f9ae
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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Lightning Labs headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Company size

10–50 employees

Founded

2016

Total raised

$82,500,000

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