2 months ago
Base Salary
$253k - $317k/yr
Responsibilities
- Maintain and advance AvalancheGo, manage team and community contributions, and serve as the final review gate for network-critical code.
- Design, build, and improve Avalanche consensus, P2P networking, state management and synchronization, the VM interface, and C-Chain EVM integrations through coreth and libevm.
- Define engineering standards, production-quality expectations, observability standards, node performance SLOs, and incident review practices.
- Own release quality through versioning, backward compatibility, staged test-network rollouts, upgrade coordination, and comprehensive test-quality metrics.
- Mentor senior engineers, lead design reviews, distribute technical context, and improve shared engineering standards across teams.
- Write ADRs, release notes, and technical communications while engaging external contributors and representing open-source best practices.
- Originate and champion Avalanche Community Proposals and drive protocol direction ahead of upgrades on Fuji and Mainnet.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years operating at staff or lead level or clearly performing at that scope.
- Expert-level Go proficiency, including concurrency, race detection, profiling, performance tuning, dependency management, and API design.
- Significant open-source experience as a maintainer or sustained core contributor, with public reviews, design documents, and community engagement.
- Production experience designing, shipping, and operating distributed systems at scale, including consensus, replication, P2P networking, state synchronization, or comparable high-availability systems.
- Strong testing experience across unit, property-based/fuzz, integration, and end-to-end network testing, including CI enforcement; GitHub Actions is preferred.
- Experience with release engineering for self-hosted software, including semantic versioning, backward compatibility, migration paths, and coordinated network upgrades.
- Working fluency with Linux-based infrastructure, Docker, Kubernetes, and observability tooling such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority and to operate at Staff scope.
- Experience mentoring engineers, setting engineering standards, reviewing code, and contributing to open-source communities.
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About Ava Labs
Ava Labs develops and maintains Avalanche, an open-source, proof-of-stake blockchain platform and EVM-compatible tooling for Web3 developers and enterprises. Its products include the AvalancheGo node software, the C-Chain for smart contracts, and frameworks for building custom subnets. The company is privately held, headquartered in New York, and was founded by Cornell computer scientists to support decentralized finance, NFTs, and asset tokenization use cases.