Staff Engineer Developer Infrastructure

8 hours ago Lead Salary: 253K - 317K Remote (Global); HQ; Remote (USA) Remote Full Time Token Allocation Devops Jobs by Ava Labs, Inc.
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Ava Labs is a for-profit blockchain technology company that develops and supports Avalanche-based infrastructure, applications, and custom blockchains.
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New York, USA
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About Ava Labs, Inc.
Ava Labs develops software and services for the Avalanche ecosystem, including support for smart contracts, decentralized applications, subnets, APIs, bridges, wallet software, staking, and node operation. Its website highlights Avalanche, AvaCloud, and Core, and describes AvaCloud as a managed service for launching custom blockchains. The company works with organizations seeking scalable blockchain solutions for business, finance, and other real-world applications, while also supporting developers, ecosystem projects, universities, and community participants.
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Skills
BazelBlockchainChaos EngineeringCi/CdConsensusContainerDistributed SystemFuzzingGithub ActionsGoInfrastructure-As-CodeKubernetesLinuxMetricNetworkingObservabilityPerformance OptimizationProfilingProperty-Based TestingRustTestingTracing
Candidate Availability
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United States
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About The Role
You will improve the infrastructure, tooling, automation, and processes that help Platform Engineering teams build, test, release, observe, and debug software confidently. You will work hands-on in code, evolve CI/CD and testing systems, improve observability and test environments, and turn recurring engineering pain points into durable tools and documentation.
Requirements
7+ years 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 relieve bottlenecks
Working fluency with Linux, containers, and infrastructure-as-code
Experience operating at Staff scope
Responsibilities
Partner with Platform Engineering teams to identify development, testing, release, observability, and debugging improvements
Evolve CI/CD pipelines using Bazel and GitHub Actions
Improve provisioning, inspection, comparison, and retirement of test environments
Evolve observability infrastructure to identify regressions and improvements
Improve resilience through end-to-end testing, fuzzing, chaos engineering, and failure-oriented test design
Turn recurring pain points into tools, automation, and documentation
Debug flaky tests, improve release checks, review tool adoption, and improve documentation
Benefits
Token package
Equity package

Work arrangement
Yes