Lightspark is hiring a Senior Production Engineer in Engineering (Los Angeles HQ).
Lightspark is creating the Money Grid, modern, open financial infrastructure that makes payments accessible, affordable, and instant for businesses and users worldwide. We're challenging the status quo, updating the current system, and empowering our partners to build better solutions. Together, we're building the most advanced financial infrastructure, open, instant, and global, inspiring a future where anyone, anywhere can access the full potential of digital money.
We are looking for engineers who thrive in entrepreneurial environments, enjoy writing and shipping code fast, and can help us build out a great culture of engineering excellence. We're looking for people who are passionate about building world-changing software and solving complex problems to further our mission, as well as having fun along the way. As a Production Engineer, you'll build and integrate new experiences for Lightspark's customers, and optimize the performance, scalability, and reliability of Lightspark infrastructure.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
- Designing, building, scaling, securing and maintaining production services
- Writing or improving code frameworks (e.g. monitoring, logging, database access, authentication)
- Desire to learn and grow in a highly collaborative environment
- Building and optimizing core infrastructure to support new features and functionality
- Joining the on-call rotation, supporting the Software Engineers, and debugging the hardest problems
Qualifications & Requirements
- 5+ years of Production / Site Reliability / DevOps Engineering
- Experience writing high quality and well tested code
- Experience communicating and collaborating across technical and other cross functional teams
- CS degree, or equivalent is ideal but not required. We appreciate and acknowledge that some of the best talent comes from non-traditional backgrounds.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code solutions (i.e. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.)
- Experience programming in high-level languages such as Python is preferred
- Openness to relocate to Los Angeles, California, or ability to travel to the LA office on a monthly basis working remotely
Lightspark is on a mission to build the future of open, instant, and global financial infrastructure making payments accessible and affordable for everyone, everywhere. We're committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace to reflect the customers we serve. We welcome interest from individuals of all backgrounds and levels of experience who share our mission. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the State of California Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
About Lightspark
Lightspark, founded in 2022 by David Marcus, former Meta Novi lead, with a senior team from Meta, in Los Angeles, builds enterprise infrastructure for Bitcoin's Lightning Network. Its platform, Lightspark Predict and Lightspark Connect, offers node management, liquidity automation, routing optimization and compliant wallet SDKs that let exchanges, neobanks and wallets send instant low-fee bitcoin payments without operating Lightning directly. Headquartered in Los Angeles with hubs in Austin and remote, Lightspark integrates with banking rails, stablecoin issuance and compliance tooling to bring programmable money to mainstream apps. Backed by leading investors, the team applies consumer-scale payments expertise to Bitcoin. Its tools integrate compliance, risk and reporting that let banks launch compliant Lightning wallets, streaming payments and enterprise treasury flows. Expect a product and infrastructure culture that values reliability, regulatory thoughtfulness and extending Bitcoin for everyday global payments.