Senior Site Reliability Engineer Full Time

All roles with Chainlink Labs are globally remote based. We encourage you to apply regardless of your location.nThe infrastructure team enables Chainlink development and maintains services that support the health of the most widely-adopted oracle network in the world. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will help us solve some of the unique challenges of blockchain oracle architecture and be primarily responsible for the Chainlink ecosystem’s off-chain part.nWe are distributed across time zones and continents, and we embrace remote work. In the Infrastructure team, we follow the infrastructure-as-code approach and practice GitOps. Our on-call rotation uses the follow-the-sun pattern: you will be on call some of the time, but there should not be any overnight shifts.nWe 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.nYour ImpactnnnSupport monitoring services that watch over the entire Chainlink network.nnDeploy and maintain various externally-facing services like reference Chainlink nodes used by developers and customers (including critical services such as Chainlink VRF).nnImprove the reliability and observability of our internal infrastructure.nnProvide our engineers with a reliable release pipeline and empower them to release and deploy Chainlink and adjacent tools extremely quickly.nnnnRequirementsnnn5+ years of relevant professional experience. You have a software engineering background or an operations background and have worked as an SRE (or in a very close position) before.nnExperience with system architecture. You can create a design document for a cross-region load-balancing app with five microservices, a PostgreSQL cluster, a caching layer, and a Kafka queue—and then implement it on AWS.nnExperience with CI/CD pipelines. You can troubleshoot an existing pipeline or build your own, and you’ve probably worked on both software delivery and cloud-based services deployment.nnExperience with distributed systems and container orchestration. You have built or maintained complex Kubernetes clusters before.nnAbility to read and write code. You can understand precisely why a recent code change led to degraded performance; you can write scripts and tools to automate routine tasks and eliminate toil.nnStrong communication skills. You can give and receive constructive feedback, and you do not shy away from planning meetings and code reviews.nnnnPreferred Qualificationsnnn Professional experience with Golang, TypeScript, or both.nnExcitement for blockchain, Web 3.0, and similar decentralized technologies.nnExperience running blockchain full node operator is a big plus.nnExperience with Chainlink as a developer or a node operator is a big plus.nnComfort working with network protocols, proxies, and load balancers.nnExperience with information security and DevSecOps.nnExperience working remotely in a distributed team.nnWe are giving slight preference to candidates who live in the UTC to UTC+8 range due to our on-call schedule for this particular opening.nnnOur StacknSome of the tools and services we use daily or almost daily are:nAWS; Terraform/Terragrunt; Kubernetes, Calico and ArgoCD; Prometheus and Grafana; GitHub Actions; PackernWe expect you to be comfortable with most of those tools and very proficient in several of them.nnOur PrinciplesnAt Chainlink Labs, we’re committed to the key operating principles of ownership, focus, and open dialogue. We practice complete ownership, where everyone goes the extra mile to own outcomes into success. We understand that unflinching focus is a superpower and is how we channel our activity into technological achievements for the benefit of our entire ecosystem. We embrace open dialogue and critical feedback to arrive at an accurate and truthful picture of reality that promotes both personal and organizational growth.nnAbout Chainlink LabsnChainlink is the industry standard oracle network for connecting smart contracts to the real world. With Chainlink, developers can build hybrid smart contracts that combine on-chain code with an extensive collection of secure off-chain services powered by Decentralized Oracle Networks. Managed by a global, decentralized community of hundreds of thousands of people, Chainlink is introducing a fairer model for contracts. Its network currently secures billions of dollars in value for smart contracts across the decentralized finance (DeFi), insurance, and gaming ecosystems, among others. The full vision of the Chainlink Network can be found in the Chainlink 2.0 whitepaper. Chainlink is trusted by hundreds of organizations—from global enterprises to projects at the forefront of the blockchain economy—to deliver definitive truth via secure, reliable data.  nThis role is location agnostic anywhere in the world, but we ask that you overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).nWe are a fully distributed team and have the tools and benefits to support you in your remote work environment.nChainlink Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. nn#Salary and compensationn
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Finance, Node, Senior, Engineer and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:nn
$70,000 — $120,000/yearn

nn#Benefitsn
🌎 Distributed teamnn
nn#LocationnWorldwide