Staff Engineer, AvalancheGo

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Maintain and advance the software powering the Avalanche network and its environments
• ▹Manage contributions from the team and community, holding the merge bar for network-critical code
• ▹Set and enforce engineering standards for production quality
• ▹Design, build, and advance critical systems: consensus, P2P networking, state management and sync, the VM interface, and node/EVM performance
• ▹Establish observability standards and define SLOs for node performance, leading incident review and postmortem culture
• ▹Own the engineering lifecycle for network-critical code, including versioning, upgrade coordination, backward compatibility, staged rollouts, and test quality
• ▹Mentor senior engineers and run design reviews

Soft skills

About the company

Ava Labs builds high-performance Web3 solutions on the Avalanche blockchain, founded by Cornell computer scientists together with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders.