Lightning Infrastructure Engineer
You'll design and build the key systems that support the initial bootstrapping and growth of the Lightning Network. You'll write advanced software tooling for automated channel management and initial client channel selection. You'll implement algorithms for ongoing capital management and optimization, including fee maximization and capital efficiency. You'll design and maintain monitoring and alert infrastructure for routing nodes, and develop metrics to analyze network health based on graph and node level signals. You'll also build novel systems to help nodes and users acquire and manage liquidity on the Lightning Network, lowering the barrier to entry for operating routing nodes.
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 to help nodes/users acquire and manage liquidity on the Lightning Network
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