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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Node Operations
Chainlink Labs
Web3
201-500
San Francisco, CA, USA
About the job
Overview:
Chainlink is the industry-standard Web3 services platform that enables developers to build feature-rich Web3 applications with seamless access to real-world data and off-chain computation.
- Chainlink has helped enable $8T+ in transaction value since the start of 2022.
- Over 1,700 Web3 projects have integrated Chainlink services.
- Chainlink is live on 15+ blockchains with many having joined the Chainlink SCALE program.
- Chainlink is relied upon by industry-leading protocols like Aave, Compound, Paxos, Synthetix, and ENS.
- Chainlink has delivered 7.4B+ data points on-chain and onboarded 900+ decentralized oracle networks.
- Chainlink has established collaborations with Associated Press, Accuweather, AWS, Google Cloud, Meta, and Twilio.
- The world-class Chainlink Labs research team has won various awards for its work on distributed systems, security, and more.
Who we’re looking for:
- You’re focused on what matters most and ignore unimportant industry distractions.
- You take extreme ownership and deliver outstanding results.
- You have a growth mindset, seek out feedback and engage in constructive dialogue with others to help them grow.
- You move fast and evolve with rapidly advancing technologies.
- You want to be part of a team that excels and is committed to building the Chainlink Network and growing the Web3 ecosystem over the long term.
- You are welcoming toward a diverse network of participants joining an open, global standard.
- You’re excited about the future of Web3 and building a world powered by cryptographic truth.
At Chainlink Labs, our engineering team pushes the scale and capabilities of decentralized applications across the industry. The Chainlink Network holds >70% market share in the oracle space, solving real-world problems by enabling smart contracts to securely interact with off-chain data/computation.
The infrastructure org enables Chainlink development and maintains services that support the health of the most widely-adopted oracle network in the world. The Node Operations team are the ‘Gold Standard’ when it comes to running Chainlink, streamlining the experience for any would-be node operator. They manage all of the internally-deployed nodes—like testnet OCR, VRF, Automation and blockchain nodes -- both internal and external. 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.
We 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.
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
- Run internal Chainlink and Blockchain nodes.
- Provide enterprise-level blockchain connectivity to those who are trying to build something.
- Pair with engineers from across the company to help with troubleshooting, deploy new services, and figure out how to increase developer velocity and eliminate pain points.
- Build automation and tooling to make those things easier.
- Support monitoring services that watch over the entire Chainlink network.
- Deploy and maintain various externally-facing services like reference Chainlink nodes used by developers and customers (including critical services such as Chainlink VRF).
- Improve the reliability and observability of our internal infrastructure.
- Provide our engineers with a reliable release pipeline and empower them to release and deploy Chainlink and adjacent tools extremely quickly.
Requirements
- Excitement for blockchain, Web 3.0, and similar decentralized technologies.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4+ years of relevant professional experience in SRE and Software Engineering background.
- Experience with a modern cloud platform, infrastructure-as-code, containers, container-orchestration and observability.
- We use AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana and Prometheus.
- Experience building Automation and/or Powertooling to reduce toil.
- Strong communication skills. It’s a fully remote job that requires working with multiple stakeholders across all of Engineering. Great communication is as essential as the technical knowledge for this role.
- Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration. You have maintained or even built Kubernetes clusters before and feel comfortable deploying complete new services on them or have familiarity with Docker.
- Experience working closely with software engineering teams to promote best practices such as CI/CD and security.
- Awareness of reliability concepts such as: SL(A/O/I)s, building scalable systems and what it means to be “production ready”.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Go, Python, Typescript.
- Familiarity with GitOps and tools like ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.
- Industry-recognized certifications such as the CKA and AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
- Blockchain experience running blockchain/chainlink nodes and/or creating smart contracts using Solidity.
- Experience working in scale-up companies of a similar size or early-stage startups.
Employee location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Workplace type: remote
Job type: full time
Compensation: $80 - 120 /hr
Currency: USD
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