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Lightning Infrastructure Engineer (Remote)

Lightning Labs· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Systems-oriented engineer to design and build key components supporting bootstrapping and growth of the Lightning Network, focusing on tooling for automatic channel management, liquidity management, monitoring, and metrics for network health.

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 designed to help nodes/users acquire and manage liquidity on the Lightning Network

Qualifications

  • - 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

Skills

Required:Secure, scalable, highly-available systemsAPIsSystems programming (Go, C, C++)
Nice to have:Open source contributionBitcoin / cryptography knowledge
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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