Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability

Overview

Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Chainlink is the industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data, offchain computation, and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain. Chainlink Labs helps power verifiable applications for banking, DeFi, global trade, and gaming by collaborating with some of the world's largest financial institutions, notably Swift, DTCC, and ANZ. Chainlink Labs also works with top Web3 teams, including Aave, Compound, GMX, Maker, and Synthetix. Chainlink Labs was ranked as one of the Global Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces by Newsweek 2025.

The Observability 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. This role is a good fit for someone with a strong DevOps mentality, a passion for building and maintaining a mature GitOps environment, and experience focusing on observability. The team is expanding, offering opportunities to build, learn, and grow. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage you to apply even if you don\'t match 100% of the job requirements.

Your Impact

• Build and orchestrate a Modern OTEL-based Observability Platform
• Support multiple telemetry types, like metrics, logs and traces
• Define and support modern governance in observability and problems at scale
• Ensure reliability, security, and performance exceed our defined SLAs
• Collaborate with engineers across the company to troubleshoot issues, deploy new products and services, and increase velocity while decreasing cognitive load
• Lead the design and deployment of monitoring/observability services to detect and alert the team of needed action
• Ingest, aggregate, transform, and utilize data from multiple sources in the real-time data pipeline
• Oversee the availability, performance, and supportability of observability infrastructure
• Create processes around alert response operations and support the team to ensure reliable delivery of oracle data
• Make recommendations to ensure sufficient metrics are collected to create alerts with every new feature release
• Champion reliability and security by taking the time to do your work right the first time

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience. You have likely 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 programming in C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby
• Expert knowledge in all aspects of designing, developing, and managing large real-time systems
• Experience with monitoring and logging. You know how to export metrics using Prometheus, have built a Grafana dashboard, and have experience with a centralized logging solution like an ELK Stack, Splunk or Grafana Stack
• Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration. You have maintained or built Kubernetes clusters and feel comfortable deploying new services on them
• Strong communication skills. You can give and receive constructive feedback and participate in planning meetings and code reviews

Desired Qualifications

• Excitement for blockchain, Web 3.0, and similar decentralized technologies
• Experience running infrastructure in the blockchain/web3 space
• Ability to scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems for reliability and velocity
• Experience working remotely in a distributed team
• A strong desire to grow and challenge yourself by automating services to reduce toil

Tools and Services

• AWS; Terraform/Terragrunt; Kubernetes, Calico and ArgoCD; Prometheus and Grafana; GitHub Actions; Packer
• We expect you to be comfortable with most of those tools and proficient in several of them

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Overlap with Eastern Standard Time (EST) is encouraged unless stated otherwise.

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Commitment to Equal Opportunity

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Technology, Information and Internet

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