Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability

Chainlink Labs is seeking a Senior SRE to join our Observability Team, which enables Chainlink development and empowers engineers to continue building and supporting crucial products and services in the blockchain industry. In this role, you will help accelerate and enable other engineering teams by increasing self-service and decreasing cognitive load.

Overview

Department

Engineering

Job type

Full time

Compensation

Salary not specified

Location

United States

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About Us

Chainlink Labs is one of the primary contributing developers of Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance. The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), payments, stablecoins, and more. Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, ANZ, Aave, GMX, Lido, and many others.Chainlink Labs is a world-class team of over 600 developers, researchers, and capital markets experts, and has ranked amongFortune's Best Workplaces in Technology,Fortune's Best Medium Workplace, and theTop 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces. Learn more atchain.linkorchainlinklabs.com.

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 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

Work with engineers from across the company to help 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 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 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

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 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 them

Strong communication skills. You can give and receive constructive feedback, and you do not shy away from planning meetings and code reviews

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 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

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 very proficient in several of them.

Additional Information

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.

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 thisform.

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