Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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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 theAbout UsChainlink 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 Infrastructure Platform 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.
Key initiatives surrounding our mission include architecting and building a services catalog and an internal developer platform.This job would be perfect for someone who has a strong DevOps mentality, is passionate about building and maintaining a mature GitOps environment, and has experience building and growing an internal developer platform.
The entire engineering team is expanding, and you would have plenty of opportunities to build, learn, and grow.We are distributed across time zones and continents, and we embrace remote work.
Our team shares on-call responsibilities as part of a healthy rotation, with an emphasis on reasonable coverage and strong peer support.We 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.Your ImpactBuild and orchestrate large, distributed infrastructure with a focus on automationShape the resilience, efficiency, and scalability of our servicesPartner with engineers from across the company to help troubleshoot issues, deploy solutions, and accelerate their velocityInnovate and enhance the infrastructure platform team's product offerings to increase self service, improve cost optimization, and reduce toilProvide technical leadership and mentoring to your team and othersChampion best practices in reliability, security, and cloud infrastructure to help cultivate a culture of high operational standardsRequirementsAt least 8 years of relevant professional experience.
You probably have worked on a devops, infrastructure, SRE, and/or platform team beforeAbility to develop software outside of the scope of typical infrastructure requirements and configurationsExperience in deploying or extending an internal developer platform to reduce cognitive burden and increase efficiency of other engineering teamsHave led large cross-team initiatives and can demonstrate a successful track record with quantifiable metrics that impact the businessPractical experience in shell scripting and demonstrable skills in at least one higher-level languageExcellent understanding of LinuxExpert knowledge in all aspects of designing, deploying, and supporting large real-time systemsExperience with monitoring, logging, alerting and end to end tracing is a plusExperience with distributed systems and container orchestration.Strong communication skills.
You can give and receive constructive feedback, and you do not shy away from planning meetings and code reviewsFamiliar with most tools from our stack (see below)Desired QualificationsExperience running any infrastructure in the blockchain/web3 space is a plusAbility to scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocityExperience with internal, ephemeral test and development environmentsExperience implementing self service toolingDeveloped strategies for using Software Build of Materials (SBOM), artifact signing and verificationPassion for securityExperience with setting team priorities (OKRs) and aligning business processes required to get a product/service from ideation to production (PRD, RFC, etc)Experience working remotely in a distributed teamA strong desire to grow and challenge yourself.
We would expect you to constantly find ways to improve and automate services to reduce toilExcitement for blockchain, Web 3.0, and similar decentralized technologies.Our StackWe adhere to the GitOps approach to infrastructure and state management.
Self service and automation through our internal developer platform is paramount.Some of the tools and services we use daily or almost daily are: AWS; Terraform/Terragrunt; Kubernetes, ArgoCD; GitHub Actions; GrafanaWe expect you to be comfortable with many of these tools or have a strong understanding of the fundamental concepts the tools are applied to.All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based.
Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).
We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes.
The closing date is listed on the job advert, so we encourage you to take the time to thoughtfully prepare your application.
We want to fully consider your experience and skills, and you will hear from us regarding the status of your application shortly after the closing date.Commitment to Equal OpportunityChainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances.
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