Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Infrastructure Platform

Remote from: Anywhere 🌎
Category: DevOps & SysAdmin Engineering
Job type: Full Time,
Opening date: 12 Mar 2023
Closing date: 11 Apr 2023
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About Chainlink

Chainlink is a decentralized blockchain oracle network built on Ethereum

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Actively Hiring

All roles with Chainlink Labs are globally remote based. We encourage you to apply regardless of your location.

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. Recently, Chainlink crossed $7 trillion TVE (total value enabled) as an undisputed leader in the oracle space. Reliability is vital to the success of our company. As a staff 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 on-call rotation uses the follow-the-sun pattern: you will be on-call some of the time, but your shifts will be during your day and our team is large.

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 Impact

Build and orchestrate large, distributed infrastructure
Ensure reliability, security, and performance exceed our defined SLAs
Understand what a successful internal developer platform looks like and continue to build and expand upon it from a product and customer focused mindset
Work with engineers from across the company to help troubleshoot issues, deploy new products and services, and increase velocity while decreasing cognitive load
Provide technical leadership across numerous engineering teams
Champion reliability and security by taking the time to do your work right the first time

Requirements

7+ years of relevant professional experience. You probably have 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
Have led large cross-team initiatives and can demonstrate a successful track record with quantifiable metrics that impact the business
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 or two, and have experience with a centralized logging solution like an ELK Stack, Splunk or LogDNA
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
Strong communication skills. You can give and receive constructive feedback, and you do not shy away from planning meetings and code reviews
Familiar with most tools from our stack (see below)

Desired Qualifications

Excitement for blockchain, Web 3.0, and similar decentralized technologies.
Experience running any infrastructure in the blockchain/web3 space
Ability to scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
Experience with internal developer platforms and service catalogs
Experience 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 team
A strong desire to grow and challenge yourself. We would expect you to constantly find ways to improve and automate services to reduce toil