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title: 'Staff Engineer, Developer Infrastructure at Ava Labs'
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# Staff Engineer, Developer Infrastructure at Ava Labs

- **Company:** Ava Labs
- **Location:** Global
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ava-labs/e68ce5c9-e525-4f98-a2c3-eaf83f94a939

## Job description

Looking to join a world-class blockchain development team? 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. We'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. Your 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. The 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.

## WHAT YOU WILL DO

Partner 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:

- Support 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.
- Make ephemeral and long-running test environments easier to provision, inspect, compare, and retire.
- Evolve observability infrastructure to collect useful data from diverse environments and compare coherently across runs, versions, and configurations to reveal regressions and highlight improvements.
- Improve 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.
- Turn 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.
- Do 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.

## WHAT MAKES YOU A GOOD FIT

- You are a self-starter with deep curiosity. You are comfortable diving into someone else’s code to understand how it works, and you treat the code as the source of truth.
- You 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.
- You build cross-team agreement through working software and demonstrated judgment rather than process mandates. Teams trust you because your work makes their work better.
- You care about reliability, and you are motivated by building the infrastructure that helps other engineers ship with confidence.
- You find the boundaries between application and infrastructure, product code and developer tooling, more fluid than people pretend.
- You listen carefully, yet you are still willing to prototype an idea before it is fully proven.
- You 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.
- You 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.

## WHAT YOU WILL BRING

Required

- 7+ years writing production software, with 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, the 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.
- Distributed systems, blockchain infrastructure, consensus systems, P2P networking, or other high-reliability systems.
- Kubernetes or similar orchestration frameworks.
- Large-scale observability: tracing, profiling, metrics.
- Using data to drive performance optimization.
- Chaos engineering, fuzzing, property-based testing, and failure-injection systems.

## THIS ROLE IS NOT FOR YOU IF

- You want to set technical direction without writing code.
- You want to own a fixed infrastructure domain in isolation from the teams using it.
- You prefer prescribing process over building tools and feedback loops that make better practices easier to follow.
- You consider tests, documentation, migrations, debugging, and adoption work beneath Staff-level engineering.

WHY AVA LABS? If 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.

Ava 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. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

## About Ava Labs

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Blockchain infrastructure, Web3, decentralized finance (DeFi), enterprise blockchain solutions
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, financial institutions, developers, and projects building on Avalanche; also B2C through the Core wallet
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Empower people to easily and freely digitize all the world's assets on one open, programmable blockchain platform."

## Products & Services
- **[Avalanche]**: High-performance blockchain network (smart contract platform) designed for scalability, low latency, and low transaction costs. Supports custom blockchains (subnets) and is used for DeFi, gaming, and enterprise applications.
- **[AvaCloud]**: Fully managed, custom blockchain launchpad – enables organizations to deploy production-ready blockchains in minutes without managing infrastructure.
- **[Core Wallet]**: Native digital asset wallet (browser extension and mobile) for managing assets, staking, and interacting with Avalanche dApps.
- **[Avalanche Policy Coalition]**: Educational resource providing information on blockchain and Web3 fundamentals, applications, and policy for regulators and the public.
- **[Fortary]**: Institutional custody solution (product under development) for secure digital asset storage and management.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $640M (as of latest ICO in September 2021)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, Polychain Capital, Three Arrows Capital, Dragonfly Capital, NGC Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant, Mastercard (program partnership)
- **Growth Signals**: 195 employees (+3.1% YoY); operates in 26 countries; active job postings (5 as of mid-2026); growing ecosystem of projects on Avalanche; recent focus on institutional custody (Fortary)

## Competitive Advantages
- **High-performance architecture**: Avalanche is one of the fastest smart contract platforms (sub-second finality, high throughput) – a key differentiator vs. Ethereum and other L1s.
- **Custom subnet capability**: Allows enterprises and projects to launch their own sovereign blockchains with customizable rules, fee models, and validators.
- **Strong academic and engineering pedigree**: Founded by Cornell computer scientists; team includes experts from top tech and finance firms.
- **Deep ecosystem backing**: Supported by major crypto VCs and a large community of developers and projects.

## Strategic Focus
- **Digitizing real‑world assets**: Continuing to expand the use of Avalanche for tokenizing securities, real estate, and other traditional assets.
- **Institutional custody (Fortary)**: Building secure, compliant custody solutions to attract financial institutions and large asset managers.
- **Ecosystem growth**: Supporting builders on Avalanche through grants, partnerships, and the AvaCloud platform to accelerate adoption.
- **Global expansion**: Strengthening presence in key regions (Asia, Europe, Middle East) through local teams and university engagement.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: Emphasizes shared vision, integrity, community, innovation, and decisive action. Team is described as “intensely exciting and supportive” with a focus on ethical, sustainable solutions.
- **Remote & hybrid policy**: Remote‑first with offices in New York City (Brooklyn) and Miami. Employees have flexible on‑site expectations; offices serve as collaboration hubs.
- **Perks & benefits**: Competitive compensation, comprehensive insurance (short‑/long‑term disability, life insurance), 401k (non‑matching), commuter benefits, unlimited PTO, volunteer time‑off, team activities, and remote‑friendly networking.
- **Engineering culture**: Uses modern tech stack (Rust, Go, Solidity, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Docker). Strong emphasis on science‑fueled innovation and learning from mistakes.
- **Global team**: Employees across 26 countries; talent sourced from top companies like Coinbase, AWS, Lyft, and Cornell Blockchain.

## Sources
1. [avalabs.org – About & Careers](https://www.avalabs.org/)
2. [avalabs.org – Careers Page](https://www.avalabs.org/careers)
3. [LinkedIn – Ava Labs Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/avalabsofficial)
4. [Built In – Ava Labs Profile](https://builtin.com/company/ava-labs)
5. [Greenhouse Job Board – Ava Labs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/avalabs?gh_src=9a15c6d64us)

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