Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Chainlink Labs
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Open-source blockchain oracle solutions
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Open-source blockchain oracle solutions
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate smart contract innovation and adoption by empowering developers to build feature-rich decentralized applications and providing global enterprises with a universal gateway to all blockchains.
Role
Who you are
- 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"
- 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
Desirable
- Experience with Go, Python, Typescript
- Familiarity with GitOps and tools like ArgoCD and GitHub Actions
- Industry recognised 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- Building 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
Our take
Smart contracts are the future of transparent, fair, and efficient digital dealings across industries as diverse as lending, real estate, and international trade. Historically, the application of smart contracts was limited to on-chain data, but oracle mechanisms like Chainlink Labs can be used to import off-chain data (like those required for the broader application of smart contracts) onto the chain.
Chainlink Labs' work has marked a significant step forward in the progress of blockchain technologies - and has proven a remarkable success story for the company. It is responsible for the largest global decentralized oracle network in the world, used by hundreds of projects spanning online gaming and cryptocurrency. It has also received its fair share of critique - but blockchain technology at large remains a work in progress, and Chainlink has been quick to develop solutions.
All in all, the benefits of Chainlink’s work look set to become even more pronounced, as smart contracts become more applied across the globe. In late 2022, the company launched the staking of its native token LINK to increase the security of the protocol and enable the Chainlink system to grow. Building on that, it has recently introduced a new community rewards program for LINK stakers, further encouraging participants while also strengthening its network through active community involvement.
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Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Leadership
Sergey Nazarov
(Co-Founder)Co-founded P2P travel network ExistLocal, and served as a general partner at QED Capital during its pivot towards cryptocurrency. Subsequently co-founded CryptaMail, Secure Asset Exchange, and SmartContract.
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