Staff Infrastructure Engineer At Lightspark

Job Description

About The Company

Lightspark builds enterprise-ready infrastructure for the Lightning Network delivering open payments for the Internet at scale. Lightspark services aim to be the fastest, lowest cost, easiest and most reliable way to send and receive payments globally with exceptionally low fees, using Lightning. We’re headquartered in Los Angeles but serving the world.

Job Short Description

We are looking for candidates who thrive in entrepreneurial environments, enjoy writing and shipping code fast, and can help us build out a great culture of engineering excellence.  We’re looking for people who are passionate about building world-changing software and solving complex problems to further our mission, as well as having fun along the way.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services

  • Building a deep understanding of Lightning and collaborating with the community to make core protocol and implementation improvements

  • Creating a rich services layer to serve the next set of users and use cases - bringing Lightning to mass adoption

  • Building frameworks to collect and deeply analyze Lightning data for the purposes of solution improvement

  • Extending Lightning via advanced functionality that solves the next wave of complex problems and introduces Lightning to broader audiences

  • Desire to learn and grow in a highly collaborative environment

What we are looking for:

  • 7+ years of infrastructure or back-end engineering 

  • Experience writing, high quality, well tested code

  • Experience communicating and collaborating across technical and other cross functional teams

  • CS degree, or equivalent is ideal but not required. We appreciate and acknowledge that some of the best talent comes from non-traditional backgrounds.

  • Experience using data to influence decisions

  • Familiarity with off-the-shelf coding/deployment solutions (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, etc.) 

  • Experience programming in languages such as Rust, C, C++ is preferred

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Offered Salary

200000-280000 USD
Job Position Information
  • Company:
    Lightspark
  • Job Category:
    Engineering
  • Location
    On Site
  • Job Type
    Full Time
  • Date Posted
    28 Jul, 2023

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