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Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. The company was founded by Cornell computer scientists, who partnered with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders to execute a promising vision for redefining the way people build permissionless networks. Ava Labs is redefining the way people create value with Web3. Join us as we empower people to easily and freely digitize all the world’s assets on one open, programmable blockchain platform.\nWe're hiring a Staff Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure team within Platform Engineering at Ava Labs. Platform Engineering builds and operates the core of the Avalanche network: consensus engines, the P-Chain, virtual machines, and the systems that let many virtual machines interoperate as one network.\nYour job is to make the teams building those systems faster and more confident in what they ship. You will work across Platform Engineering to understand where development is slow, fragile, hard to reason about, or insufficiently automated, then build durable infrastructure, tooling, shared knowledge, and technical processes that make better engineering outcomes easier and more repeatable.\nThe work will typically span CI/CD, ephemeral environments, automated end-to-end testing, chaos and resilience testing, observability, performance infrastructure, and developer workflows, but we are less interested in narrow domain ownership than in the desire and ability to reduce engineering friction and risk. This is a hands-on role: you will be in the code, not adjacent to it.\nWHAT YOU WILL DO\nPartner with teams across Platform Engineering to understand how they build, test, release, observe, and debug, then identify what is worth fixing, and how. Illustrative examples:\nSupport and evolve our CI/CD pipeline, currently built on Bazel and GitHub Actions, into a fast and trustworthy signal of code quality across unit tests, end-to-end tests, performance tests, and other release-critical checks.\n\nMake ephemeral and long-running test environments easier to provision, inspect, compare, and retire.\n\nEvolve observability infrastructure to collect useful data from diverse environments and compare coherently across runs, versions, and configurations to reveal regressions and highlight improvements.\n\nImprove confidence in the correctness and resilience of consensus, networking, and protocol-adjacent systems through end-to-end testing, fuzzing, chaos engineering, and failure-oriented test design.\n\nTurn recurring team pain points into tools, automation and documentation, and spread the context - through design reviews, examples, and technical writing - so teams extend what you build without routing through you.\n\nDo the unglamorous work visibly so others emulate you: debugging flaky tests, tightening release checks, improving documentation, reviewing tool adoption, and following through until a system is genuinely useful.\n\nWHAT MAKES YOU A GOOD FIT\nYou are a self-starter with deep curiosity. [redacted]\n\nYou have strong engineering judgment, and an instinct for when code, tests, or systems are not maintainable, observable, or reproducible enough. You can explain the tradeoffs behind your calls.\n\nYou build cross-team agreement through working software and demonstrated judgment rather than process mandates. Teams trust you because your work makes their work better.\n\nYou care about reliability, and you are motivated by building the infrastructure that helps other engineers ship with confidence.\n\nYou find the boundaries between application and infrastructure, product code and developer tooling, more fluid than people pretend.\n\nYou listen carefully, yet you are still willing to prototype an idea before it is fully proven.\n\nYou can make a high bar feel practical. You push for better engineering outcomes in a way that makes people want to work with you, not around you.\n\nYou have operated at Staff scope before, regardless of title: you can point to a workstream you created or transformed, one that other teams came to depend on.\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING\nRequired\n7+ years writing production software, with strong ability in Go and/or Rust.\n\nExperience in large legacy codebases with multiple teams and shared ownership boundaries.\n\nExperience building or significantly improving developer infrastructure, CI/CD, test infrastructure, observability, release tooling, or comparable engineering productivity systems.\n\nStrong testing discipline, the ability to diagnose and pragmatically relieve bottlenecks.\n\nWorking fluency with Linux, containers, and infrastructure-as-code.\n\nPreferred\nGitHub Actions or similar CI/CD systems; Bazel or similar build systems.\n\nDistributed systems, blockchain infrastructure, consensus systems, P2P networking, or other high-reliability systems.\n\nKubernetes or similar orchestration frameworks.\n\nLarge-scale observability: tracing, profiling, metrics.\n\nUsing data to drive performance optimization.\n\nChaos engineering, fuzzing, property-based testing, and failure-injection systems.\n\nTHIS ROLE IS NOT FOR YOU IF\nYou want to set technical direction without writing code.\n\nYou want to own a fixed infrastructure domain in isolation from the teams using it.\n\nYou prefer prescribing process over building tools and feedback loops that make better practices easier to follow.\n\nYou consider tests, documentation, migrations, debugging, and adoption work beneath Staff-level engineering.\n\nWHY AVA LABS?\nIf you've ever thought about joining an early stage Web3 company - this is it! We're a global, world-class team of experts in computer science, economics, finance, marketing, and law with offices in New York City and Miami. We're highly passionate about Web3 and redefining the way people build and use finance and decentralized applications of all kinds. The company received early-stage funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, and Polychain Capital, with angel investments from Balaji Srinivasan and Naval Ravikant. Join us and be a pioneer in a new technology that will have implications across a range of verticals such as finance, gaming, investing, collectibles, among many others.\nAva Labs is committed to diversity in the workplace and we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not hire on basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal law. 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