Senior Software Engineer

About this role

Want to build the future of the cloud?

Overclock Labs is building the open source Supercloud: a distributed marketplace for cloud compute where anyone can become a provider by offering unused capacity, and anyone can access the cloud and become sovereign at scale. The work spans both the open source Akash protocol and the closed source products built around the Akash Network marketplace.

As more of the internet moves to the cloud, Overclock Labs is materializing that vision in an industry projected to reach over $2 trillion by 2030. Overclock Labs is a remote-first, distributed, and growing team, offering innovative, hands-on opportunities for career growth at the emerging intersection between crypto, AI, and permissionless compute.

The Role:

As a Software Engineer on the core engineering team, you will build and ship the chain and provider software the marketplace runs on. This is hands-on work across the Akash node and provider: writing Go, testing network upgrades before they reach mainnet, resolving provider issues in Kubernetes, and helping shape the feature specs that define new protocol capabilities. Because the team develops in the open, clear technical documentation is part of the job, from feature specs to upgrade and provider guidance. The role also contributes to closed source Overclock Labs efforts such as AkashML and Akash Homenode.

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Your Sphere of Impact: 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

Nice to Have: 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

\n$140,000 - $250,000 a year

Stock options available

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