4 hours ago
Base Salary
$253k - $317k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with Platform Engineering teams to identify and resolve development, testing, release, observability, and debugging bottlenecks.
- Evolve CI/CD pipelines using Bazel and GitHub Actions across unit, end-to-end, performance, and release-critical tests.
- Build and improve ephemeral and long-running test environments, including provisioning, inspection, comparison, and retirement workflows.
- Develop observability infrastructure and use cross-run data to identify regressions and performance improvements.
- Improve correctness and resilience testing for consensus, networking, and protocol-adjacent systems through end-to-end testing, fuzzing, chaos engineering, and failure-oriented design.
- Create tools, automation, documentation, design reviews, examples, and technical writing that enable teams to adopt better engineering practices.
- Debug flaky tests, strengthen release checks, review tool adoption, and follow through on system usability.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience writing production software.
- Strong ability in Go and/or Rust.
- Experience working in large legacy codebases with multiple teams and shared ownership boundaries.
- Experience building or significantly improving developer infrastructure, CI/CD, test infrastructure, observability, release tooling, or comparable engineering productivity systems.
- Strong testing discipline and ability to diagnose and pragmatically relieve bottlenecks.
- Working fluency with Linux, containers, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD systems and Bazel or similar build systems is preferred.
- Experience with distributed systems, blockchain infrastructure, consensus systems, P2P networking, or other high-reliability systems is preferred.
- Experience with Kubernetes or similar orchestration frameworks, large-scale tracing/profiling/metrics, performance optimization, chaos engineering, fuzzing, property-based testing, and failure-injection systems is preferred.
- Demonstrated Staff-level scope through creating or transforming a workstream on which other teams depend.
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.