Lead Lightning Network Infrastructure Engineer

Culver City - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 240000 - 280000

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

Lightspark is building open payments for the Internetalways-on payment solutions powered by Bitcoin the only open neutral network for moving value. With enterprise tools like Connect UMA and Spark businesses can send and receive money instantly securely and at a fraction of the cost anytime anywhere. Lightspark is headquartered in Los Angeles California but serves the world.

Location: Los Angeles HQ

Employment Type: Full time

Department: Engineering

Compensation: $240000 to $280000 per year

Job duties Designing building and scaling production services in Python Go and Rust. Debugging production issues and supporting customers in their integration of the companys services. Creating long term strategies and tooling to improve the stability debuggability monitoring and support for companys services and customers. Implementing new features of the Lightning Protocol to keep the companys services at the cutting edge of the Lightning Network. Learning and sharing knowledge around the Lightning Network Bitcoin Network and other blockchains to contribute to the companys highly collaborative environment. Collaborating with the Lightning network and Bitcoin communities to make core protocol improvements. Leading and mentoring a local team of Lightning Engineers. Acting as a technical leader to ensure the integrity of the platform and promote good practices across the team. Build frameworks to collect and deeply analyze Lightning data for the purpose of solution improvement.

Education and Experience required Bachelors degree in Computer Science Mathematics or Engineering and 7 years of experience in Software Engineering or related occupation.

Background

1) 7 years of experience designing building scaling and maintaining API services and distributed systems using GraphQL REST Thrift Manhattan PostgreSQL Redis and Memcached;

2) 7 years of experience working with engineering and product leadership teams to help drive technical strategy and roadmaps by identifying problems ideating solutions formulating milestones and delivery dates;

3) 7 years of experience mentoring engineers by providing specific actionable feedback both adhoc and in annual reviews performing code reviews on Github and Phabricator reviewing design documents in Google Drive and helping break down projects;

4) 5 years of experience developing novel engineering solutions using Go and Rust Python Scala Java and Kotlin;

5) 2 years of experience working with AWS infrastructure Kubernetes and Docker;

6) 2 years of experience configuring deployments using Helm and Terraform while implementing monitoring and alerting best practices using Prometheus and Grafana.

Location Culver City CA (May telecommute within a reasonable commuting distance from the office)

How to apply Email with job reference #LLNIE in subject line.

Lightspark is on a mission to build an open payment protocol for the Internet at scale and therefore were committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace to reflect the customers we serve. We welcome interest from individuals of all backgrounds and levels of experience who share our mission. We do not discriminate based on race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status disability status or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the State of California Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.