Senior Software Engineer, Chainlink Labs

Dev Services

$129-304k

SQL

TypeScript

Solidity

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, US

More information about location

Open-source blockchain oracle solutions

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Open-source blockchain oracle solutions

501-1000 employees

B2BPaymentsDeep TechInternet of ThingsAPIBlockchain

Be an early applicant

$129-304k

SQL

TypeScript

Solidity

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, US

More information about location

501-1000 employees

B2BPaymentsDeep TechInternet of ThingsAPIBlockchain

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.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Demonstrated experience developing and operating software systems at scale
Built and maintained production backend applications and APIs serving multiple stakeholders
Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems
Advanced proficiency developing production software in Go
Independently owned complex technical initiatives from design through production delivery while navigating ambiguous requirements
Delivered high-quality implementations with strong engineering rigor and attention to reliability and quality

Desirable

Experience with several of the following: data pipelines and processing, observability platforms, customer-facing applications or developer tools with a strong UX focus, large-scale SQL data systems, gRPC services, low-latency systems, or consensus algorithms
Developed software in TypeScript and/or Solidity
Demonstrated interest in blockchain and Web3 technologies
Track record of partnering closely with product, sales, marketing, customer-facing teams, or directly with customers
Experience building decentralized applications (dApps)
Experience developing banking infrastructure or other financial software

What the job involves

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Dev Services team, you will play a key role in expanding developer capabilities across the CRE platform by building scalable platform services and developer tooling
You will drive improvements that reduce operational silos, strengthen platform reliability, and deliver a best-in-class developer experience for internal engineering teams and external developers
Deliver core capabilities across the CLI, Go SDK, TypeScript SDK, and frontend services that enable developers to build more effectively on the CRE platform
Improve vertical and horizontal scalability across critical platform services
Increase workflow execution durability and platform reliability for developer-facing systems
Reduce knowledge silos by expanding ownership across critical components of the CRE platform
Elevate the developer experience through high-quality platform APIs, tooling, and SDK improvements
Strengthen operational resilience by increasing shared ownership of production systems and on-call responsibilities

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 decentralised 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 widely 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

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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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