Staff Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $253.5k - $316.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👷 Infrastructure Engineer

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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

• Build and operate developer infrastructure for Ava Labs’ Platform Engineering teams • Partner across Platform Engineering to understand development, testing, release, observability, and debugging workflows • Evolve CI/CD pipelines built on Bazel and GitHub Actions across unit, end-to-end, performance, and release-critical tests • Improve provisioning, inspection, comparison, and retirement of ephemeral and long-running test environments • Evolve observability infrastructure to compare data across runs, versions, and configurations • Improve correctness and resilience of consensus, networking, and protocol-adjacent systems through end-to-end testing, fuzzing, chaos engineering, and failure-oriented test design • Turn recurring team pain points into tools, automation, and documentation • Share technical context through design reviews, examples, and technical writing • Debug flaky tests, tighten release checks, improve documentation, review tool adoption, and follow through on system usefulness

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years writing production software • Strong ability in Go and/or Rust • Experience 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 • Preferred: GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD systems; Bazel or similar build systems • Preferred: Distributed systems, blockchain infrastructure, consensus systems, P2P networking, or other high-reliability systems • Preferred: Kubernetes or similar orchestration frameworks • Preferred: Large-scale observability including tracing, profiling, and metrics • Preferred: Using data to drive performance optimization • Preferred: Chaos engineering, fuzzing, property-based testing, and failure-injection systems • Ability to operate at Staff scope and create or transform workstreams on which other teams depend

🏖️ Benefits

• Token and equity package • Remote work arrangement • Global team environment • Equal Opportunity Employer