Senior Engineering Manager, Ava Labs
Data and Tooling
$225-267.2k
Smart contracts platform for dApps
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Smart contracts platform for dApps
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$225-267.2k
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
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in backend or data infrastructure engineering
- 5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing high-performing teams
- Deep understanding of blockchain systems, including transaction models, consensus mechanisms, and node architecture
- Strong experience designing and maintaining RESTful and streaming APIs with high throughput and low latency requirements
- Expertise in distributed systems, data pipelines, and event-driven architecture
- Proficiency in Golang, with a deep understanding of its concurrency model and ecosystem
- Hands-on experience with streaming platforms such as Kafka or AWS SQS
- Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, Aurora) and NoSQL stores (DynamoDB, MongoDB)
- Familiarity with cloud data warehouses like Snowflake or Redshift, and data infrastructure best practices
- Strong operational skills, including observability, incident management, and production hardening
- Excellent communication skills and a track record of cross-functional collaboration
What the job involves
- Lead a team of software engineers and product managers responsible for designing, building, and scaling Avalanche’s data infrastructure and developer-facing APIs
- This team owns the systems that ingest, process, and expose real-time and historical blockchain data across Avalanche’s core applications, infrastructure, and partner products
- Drive the architecture and execution of scalable, cloud-native pipelines that index blockchain data from the Avalanche Primary Network and all subnets
- Oversee development of key services including the Glacier API, Metrics API, public RPC endpoints, and Webhooks, which collectively serve hundreds of millions of daily requests
- Ensure high performance, availability, and reliability of APIs used by the Core Wallet, Explorer, Subnet Explorer, Avacloud, and third-party clients
- Lead backend development efforts to make blockchain data queryable and actionable for internal and external consumers
- Implement and enforce best practices in data engineering, including fault-tolerant design, efficient storage schemas, observability, and CI/CD automation
- Manage systems for authenticated and rate-limited API access, subnet-level data isolation, and region-specific hosting
- Own and improve the infrastructure used to onboard and support new subnets, ensuring automated data ingestion and fast time to integration
- Partner cross-functionally with Core, Avacloud, Custody, and other product teams to support evolving data needs and use cases
- Provide technical mentorship, guide architectural decisions, and foster a high-bar engineering culture within the team
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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