Staff Engineer, AvalancheGo

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $253.5k - $316.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Ava Labs

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51 - 200 employees

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

💰 $230M Initial Coin Offering - Ava Labs on 2021-09

Crypto • Web 3

Ava Labs is the developer and steward of Avalanche, a high-performance smart contracts blockchain platform that emphasizes rapid time-to-finality, low transaction costs, and energy efficiency. The company provides infrastructure and tooling for builders and enterprises, including AvaCloud for launching managed custom blockchains, Core — a native wallet for trading and bridging assets — and educational resources like Owl Explains to help onboard users to Web3. Ava Labs targets blockchain developers, decentralized application teams, and organizations exploring finance and enterprise use cases for distributed ledger technology.

📋 Description

• Maintain and advance AvalancheGo, the software powering the Avalanche network, and manage team and community contributions. • Hold the merge bar for network-critical code and steward backward compatibility for node operators and downstream Avalanche L1 builders. • Define and enforce production-quality engineering standards. • Design, build, and advance consensus, P2P networking, state management and synchronization, the VM interface, and EVM integrations. • Establish observability standards, define node-performance SLOs, and lead incident reviews and postmortems. • Own versioning, upgrade coordination, backward compatibility, staged rollouts, and testing quality for network-critical code. • Mentor senior engineers, run design reviews, and spread technical context across the team. • Write ADRs, release notes, and technical communications; engage external contributors. • Originate and champion Avalanche Community Proposals and guide AvalancheGo’s readiness for protocol upgrades.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years at staff/lead level or equivalent scope • Expert-level Go, including goroutines, channels, race detector, pprof, benchmarking, dependency management, and idiomatic API design • Significant open source experience as a maintainer or sustained core contributor on a widely used project • Public record of code reviews, RFCs/design documents, and community engagement • Production experience designing, shipping, and operating distributed systems at scale • Experience with consensus or replication, P2P networking, state synchronization, or comparable high-availability systems • Strong testing discipline across unit, property-based/fuzz, integration, and end-to-end network testing • Experience building CI that enforces testing standards; GitHub Actions preferred • Experience with semantic versioning, backward compatibility, migration paths, and coordinated network upgrades • Working fluency with Linux-based infrastructure, Docker/Kubernetes, and observability tooling such as Prometheus/Grafana • BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Token and Equity Package • Remote (Global) work arrangement • Global team environment • Equal Opportunity Employer