Senior Software Engineer

Overclock Labs is building an open source distributed marketplace for cloud compute through the Akash Network. The Senior Software Engineer will build and ship core chain and provider software, develop in Go, test network upgrades, troubleshoot Kubernetes-based provider issues, maintain APIs, and contribute to technical documentation and related products.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain core features in Go across the Akash node and provider daemon
• Design, test, and ship network upgrades, validating behavior on testnet before mainnet rollout
• Diagnose and resolve provider-side issues in Kubernetes, from gateway and networking to workload orchestration across an independently operated provider fleet
• Maintain the gRPC and protobuf API definitions and code generation shared by the node and provider
• Cut, sign, and release provider and node software
• Write feature specs and technical documentation that help providers, developers, and teammates understand and adopt new features
• Contribute to closed source Overclock Labs products such as Akash Homenode
• Think creatively about attack vectors, failure handling, and other non-functional requirements
• Continuously raise the standard of engineering excellence through best practices for coding, testing, and deployment

Requirements:

• Strong, current experience writing Go in production
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience, including debugging real workloads, networking, and cluster issues
• Expert knowledge of systems design concepts and distributed computing
• Keen eye for modeling scenarios in reproducible test environments
• Experience in key security concepts: cryptography, key/certificate management, identity, and access management
• Experience with test-driven development and the use of testing frameworks
• Experience developing backend APIs and complex services
• Ability to write clear technical documentation for both engineers and provider operators
• You take a pragmatic approach to developing clean solutions to complex problems
• Proven ability to work in an open source Git workflow, since the team develops in the open
• Ability to stay communicative while working remotely and asynchronously
• Notable open source contributions on GitHub
• Experience building or upgrading Proof-of-Stake blockchains and decentralized infrastructure
• Familiarity with Cosmos SDK, CometBFT/Tendermint
• Experience with gRPC, protobuf, and code generation
• Some Rust experience
• Passion for AI, with experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting open source models with vLLM and SGLang