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About Chainlink
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.
Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.
The Infrastructure Platform team enables Chainlink development and empowers engineers to continue building and supporting crucial products and services that have a profound impact in the blockchain industry. Reliability is vital to the success of our company. As a Senior SRE, you will help us accelerate and enable other engineering teams by increasing self-service and decreasing cognitive load. Key initiatives surrounding our mission include architecting and building a services catalog and an internal developer platform.
This job would be perfect for someone who has a strong DevOps mentality, is passionate about building and maintaining a mature GitOps environment, and has experience building and growing an internal developer platform. The entire engineering team is expanding, and you would have plenty of opportunities to build, learn, and grow.
We are distributed across time zones and continents, and we embrace remote work. Our team shares on-call responsibilities as part of a healthy rotation, with an emphasis on reasonable coverage and strong peer support.
We all have different backgrounds and are determined to help you succeed no matter where you are or who you are. If you think you would do a great job at Chainlink, we are looking forward to speaking with you, even if you don't match 100% of the job requirements: those describe people we've usually had a great time working with, but they're not a tick-box exercise.
Your Impact
Build and orchestrate large, distributed infrastructure with a focus on automation
Shape the resilience, efficiency, and scalability of our services
Partner with engineers from across the company to help troubleshoot issues, deploy solutions, and accelerate their velocity
Innovate and enhance the infrastructure platform team’s product offerings to increase self service, improve cost optimization, and reduce toil
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to your team and others
Champion best practices in reliability, security, and cloud infrastructure to help cultivate a culture of high operational standards
Requirements
At least 8 years of relevant professional experience. You probably have worked on a devops, infrastructure, SRE, and/or platform team before
Ability to develop software outside of the scope of typical infrastructure requirements and configurations
Experience in deploying or extending an internal developer platform to reduce cognitive burden and increase efficiency of other engineering teams
Have led large cross-team initiatives and can demonstrate a successful track record with quantifiable metrics that impact the business
Practical experience in shell scripting and demonstrable skills in at least one higher-level language
Excellent understanding of Linux
Expert knowledge in all aspects of designing, deploying, and supporting large real-time systems
Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and end to end tracing is a plus
Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration.
Strong communication skills. You can give and receive constructive feedback, and you do not shy away from planning meetings and code reviews
Familiar with most tools from our stack (see below)
Desired Qualifications
Experience running any infrastructure in the blockchain/web3 space is a plus
Ability to scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
Experience with internal, ephemeral test and development environments
Experience implementing self service tooling
Passion for security
Experience with setting team priorities (OKRs) and aligning business processes required to get a product/service from ideation to production (PRD, RFC, etc)
Experience working remotely in a distributed team
A strong desire to grow and challenge yourself. We would expect you to constantly find ways to improve and automate services to reduce toil
Excitement for blockchain, Web 3
About the Company
Chainlink Labs is one of the primary contributing developers of Chainlink, the standard for onchain finance, verifiable data, and cross-chain interoperability. Chainlink is unifying liquidity across global markets and has enabled over $16 trillion in transaction value across the blockchain economy. Major financial market infrastructures and institutions, such as Swift, Fidelity International, and ANZ Bank, as well as top DeFi protocols including Aave, GMX, and Lido, use Chainlink to power next-generation applications for ban...
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