Chainlink Labs
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Node Platform
United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 54 days ago
GoSwiftNode.jsDistributed SystemsAWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringCompliance
About the role
- The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more.
- Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.
- Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve.
Responsibilities
- You will design and build the infrastructure primitives that define how Chainlink Decentralized Oracle Networks (DONs) scale across internal systems and the decentralized ecosystem.
- You will help create the CRE (Kubernetes-based) control plane that enables:
- You will develop the core infrastructure components, including Kubernetes Operators and scaling automation, that Product teams will adopt and then might later be distributed to external node operators to improve decentralized scaling.
- This is not an operational support role.
- You will be building the systems that define how Chainlink scales while shaping the reliability, scalability, and decentralization of protocol-level services.
Requirements
- 6-9+ years in SRE / Platform / Infrastructure Engineering
- Proven experience scaling Kubernetes in high-throughput production environments
- Deep knowledge of:
- AWS production experience
- Experience with web3 concepts (e.g. blockchain node lifecycle, forks, reorgs, or RPC issues)
- Experience with oracle systems, token architectures, or decentralized services
- Experience scaling stateful high-availability distributed systems
- Experience implementing custom autoscaling logic
- Experience designing SLO strategies and error-budget usage
- Experience improving diagnosability and observability frameworks
- Experience building internal platform primitives
- Experience operating blockchain infrastructure in production
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Experience contributing to Kubernetes ecosystem projects
- Experience building multi-tenant platform infrastructure
- Experience working in high-security and/or SOC 2/ISO27001 compliant environments
- Experience with chaos engineering practices or implementation
Nice to have
- Scheduler behavior
- StatefulSets & persistent workloads
- Autoscaling strategies (HPA, VPA, KEDA, custom scaling)
- Resource management & performance tuning
- Multi-cluster and multi-region architectures
- Experience in diagnosing production failures at the cluster scale
- Strong Terraform or Crossplane experience
- GitOps workflows (ArgoCD / Flux) experience
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