Location

United States / Remote, Ciudad de México / Remote, Toronto / Remote, Buenos Aires / Remote, Lisbon / Remote, London / Remote, São Paulo / Remote, Vancouver / RemoteEmployment Type

Full timeLocation Type

RemoteDepartment

EngineeringAbout Us

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 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 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 focusing on observability. The entire engineering team is expanding, and you would have plenty of opportunities to build, learn, and grow.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 Modern OTEL-based Observability PlatformSupport 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 SLAsWork with engineers from across the company to help troubleshoot issues, deploy new products and services, and increase velocity while decreasing cognitive loadLead the design and deployment of monitoring/observability services to detect and alert the team of needed action.Ingest, aggregate, transform, and utilize data from a multitude of sources in our real time data pipeline.Oversee the availability, performance, and supportability of our observability infrastructure.Create processes around alert response operations and support the team to ensure the 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 timeRequirements

7+ 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 programming in C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or RubyExpert knowledge in all aspects of designing, developing, and managing large real-time systemsExperience 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 Grafana Stack.Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration. You have maintained or even built Kubernetes clusters before and feel comfortable deploying completely new services on themStrong communication skills. You can give and receive constructive feedback, and you do not shy away from planning meetings and code reviewsDesired Qualifications

Excitement for blockchain, Web 3.0, and similar decentralized technologies.Experience running any infrastructure in the blockchain/web3 spaceAbility to scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocityExperience 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 toilSome of the tools and services we use daily or almost daily are:

AWS; Terraform/Terragrunt; Kubernetes, Calico and ArgoCD; Prometheus and Grafana; GitHub Actions; PackerWe expect you to be comfortable with most of those tools and very proficient in several of them.All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we 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 Opportunity

Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us via our form.Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants

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