Staff Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

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Responsibilities

• ▹Partner with Platform Engineering teams to understand where development is slow, fragile or insufficiently automated and decide what to fix
• ▹Evolve the CI/CD pipeline, built on Bazel and GitHub Actions, into a fast and trustworthy signal of code quality across unit, end-to-end and performance tests
• ▹Make ephemeral and long-running test environments easier to provision, inspect, compare and retire
• ▹Evolve observability infrastructure to collect data from diverse environments and compare across runs, versions and configurations to reveal regressions
• ▹Improve confidence in the correctness and resilience of consensus, networking and protocol-adjacent systems through end-to-end testing, fuzzing and chaos engineering
• ▹Turn recurring pain points into tools, automation and documentation and spread context through design reviews and technical writing
• ▹Debug flaky tests, tighten release checks and improve documentation

Requirements

• ▹Self-starter with deep curiosity, comfortable diving into someone else's code
• ▹Strong engineering judgment and an instinct for when code, tests or systems are not maintainable, observable or reproducible enough
• ▹Ability to explain the tradeoffs behind your calls
• ▹Build cross-team agreement through working software and demonstrated judgment

Soft skills

About the company

Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance Web3 solutions, led by innovations on Avalanche; it was founded by Cornell computer scientists together with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders.