Senior Platform Engineer, Ava Labs
$215-228.4k
Smart contracts platform for dApps
Open for applications
Smart contracts platform for dApps
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$215-228.4k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance that enables the world to have a more prosperous future.
Role
Who you are
- You create and find projects that provide value. You don’t need to wait for someone to tell you what to work on. You know there are things you don’t know, so you listen, and understand, but this does not stop you from proposing and prototyping ideas. We hire awesome engineers to tell us what we should build
- You have an obsession with code quality and performance. You ship code when it is ready, not as soon as it passes unit tests. Yet, you understand value does not come purely from technical merit
- You do not think you are always in possession of the truth. You thrive in an environment rich in constraints in addition to opportunities
- You enjoy working with others, learning from others, and developing others
- You are curious about (or fully invested on!) web3 and blockchains, and the value that distributed ledgers might bring to all sorts of economic activity
- 10+ years of experience programming computers
- 2+ years of experience with GoLang and/or Rust
- 4+ year of experience working with others on a large codebase
- Experience with git workflows, including building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions (preferred), Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI
- Have written end-to-end tests for sizable systems
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-code
- Experience with large-scale observability
- Experience using data to drive performance optimization
- Experience with any flavor of Unix system programming, and/or large-scale orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes, and containers
What the job involves
- We are looking for a versatile engineer to join our Developer Infrastructure team at Ava Labs
- The team enables the rest of Platform Engineering to produce better code, faster, by supporting CI/CD pipelines, frictionless creation of ad-hoc Avalanche networks, automatic execution of complex end-to-end tests, and performance testing and optimization
- The Platform Engineering team, which includes Developer Infrastructure, develops and supports the core components of the Avalanche blockchain network, including the consensus engine(s), the P-chain – which enables multiple web3 virtual machines –, the virtual machines themselves, and the interconnection facilities that allow the many virtual machines to work as one
- Your experience may be tilted towards infrastructure (kubernetes, e.g), or you may have experience with chaos engineering, or observability across multiple environments, perhaps know a ton about end-to-end testing or performance measurement
- Ideally, you combine these facets to varying degrees, but we are not looking for a unicorn
- Support and develop a CI/CD pipeline (currently based on Github Actions) that you will transform into a comprehensive and fast guarantee of code quality, using unit tests, end-to-end tests, and performance tests
- Create systems that stand-up networks of Avalanche nodes, data nodes, monitoring infrastructure; on-demand and with ad-hoc configurations, on multiple computing substrates (e.g, as processes on a laptop or globally distributed on multiple Kubernetes clusters)
- Create systems to manage several, or perhaps many, ad-hoc Avalanche networks, many of which may be ephemeral
- Build an observability solution that collects data from those diverse environments, and is able to compare coherently across runs/versions to reveal regressions and highlight improvements
- Evolve observability so that it can be used to identify specific bottlenecks and drive strategy focus for the larger team, e.g, selectively collect traces and analyze them with varying degrees of automation
- Fuzz code, and network behavior (chaos engineering), to continually increase confidence on the correctness and resilience of our consensus algorithms and p2p protocols
Our take
The highly secure and decentralized nature of blockchain technology makes it an attractive prospect for financial projects - but historically, this has come with a compromise on transaction speed and scalability, with Ethereum and Blockchain speeds barely breaking into double digits per second.
Ava Labs’ open-source platform Avalanche enables companies to launch decentralized applications with all the benefits of blockchain, whilst processing a record-smashing 4,500 transactions per second. The company's strategy has been to tailor its blockchain to specific applications, establishing a reputation in the sector through efficient hard-and-fast use cases with low fees. This has allowed it to operate alongside blockchain giants like Ethereum that hoard large amounts of the DeFi market.
In answering the strong appetite for a cheaper and more scalable blockchain consensus, Ava Labs has found a keen audience, and secured the ability to pursue its goal of opening the space up to more users. The Avalanche platform has become the first to partner with Amazon Web Services, becoming part of a project to bring blockchain technology to government and enterprises. The company also partnered with digital identity verification provider Blockpass, to collaborate towards furthering the safety, security and capabilities of the ecosystem.
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Insights
61% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2022
$350m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$230m
LATE VC
Total funding: $586m
Company benefits
- 401k (non-matching)
- Commuter Benefits
- Comprehensive Insurance
- Short-term/long-term Disability
- Life Insurance
- Happy Hour Fridays
- Team Activities
- Remote-friendly Networking
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote Friendly
- Volunteer Time-Off
Company HQ
Hell's Kitchen, New York, NY
Leadership
Kevin Sekniqi
(COO & Chief Protocol Architect)Former Researcher and Software Engineer at Microsoft and NASA, with a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell.
Emin Gun Sirer
(CEO)Founder of Bloxroute Labs and professor at Cornell for 20 years with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
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